Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work as a trainer and desk general, but he needed top field commanders. He gave Hodges one more test: command of the Third Army. The 1943 Louisiana maneuvers clinched the case and Marshall's conviction of Hodges' abilities: "unbeatable in the kind of command that requires deliberate method, close-knit organization, the kind of mind that nothing can distract." Hodges went to England and to battle...
...spoke the august London Times last week of the feat of U.S. Army Lieut. Samuel ("Sammy") Wallace Magill, who, with only 30 men, captured 20,000 Germans and their general in France (TIME. Sept 25). Continued the Times: "The pity is that the exact psychological method . . . remains for the moment uncertain...
...struggles of artists to the daily work of mechanics and farmers, to fill the background of his books with the ordinary stuff of daily living of most of the people-housekeeping, planting, building, harvesting, buying and selling, keeping well and keeping busy-this is the contribution that his method has made...
...tissues instead of letting it run out of the nose. The fluid is eventually drawn off in the blood and discharged in the urine. The salt goes off that way, too, within 24 hours. Keeping the nose dry, he believes, makes a patient less susceptible to secondary infection. His method has been used in Elmira Reformatory's hospital for four years-about 1,300 colds so far-and Dr. Adler says the patients' noses are drier, their temperatures lower, than on standard treatment...
Petroleum and its wartime by-products dominated the convention talk. General Motors' Charles F. Kettering reported that his laboratories had developed a method for commercial production of a new gasoline, triptane, potentially four times as powerful as 100-octane. Estimated cost: $.50-$1 a gallon. The Society presented its highest award, the Priestley Medal, to Harvard's President James Bryant Conant for his work on synthetic rubber and as chairman of OSRD's National Defense Research Committee. Bernard Baruch declared that President Conant was chiefly responsible for breaking the technological deadlock in synthetic-rubber production. Other highlights...