Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointment of a Commissar of Foreign Affairs for the Ukraine: Alexander Yevdokimovich Korneichuk, husband of Polish-born Wanda Wasilewska (the leader of the Union of Polish Patriots), firm believer in close harmony among Ukrainians, Czechs and Poles to block revival of Prussian militarism, well-trained disciple of the Molotov method...
...ground below from horizon to horizon. The equipment consists of three cameras with wide-angle lenses, one pointing straight down and one obliquely to each side. By means of triangulation and ingenious translating devices, distortions resulting from the oblique angles are corrected in the final print. The trimetrogon method, by making it possible to space charting flights 25 miles apart instead of only four to six, has enormously accelerated mapping. Last fortnight its inventor, Lieut. Colonel Gerald ("Colonel Fitz") Fitzgerald, Chief of the Air Force's aeronautical chart division, a baldish, twinkling Irishman, was awarded the Sherman Mills Fairchild...
This is the first time such a method has been used for an anatomical textbook. The artist is Gladys McHugh, who trained under Max Brödel of Johns Hopkins (TIME, March 14, 1938). To make sketches for the "stereoscopic paintings" she studied cadavers and anatomy books, watched operations, practiced dissection on pigs' eyes, finally dissected 20 human eyes herself. She is now working up a series on ears for Army flight surgeons. The Human Eye's text is by Ophthalmologist Peter Kronfeld, with a historical appendix by Anatomist Stephen Polyak, both of Chicago...
Somewhere in the Southwest Pacific a poll-minded Army officer whiled away his free hours making a public-opinion survey among U.S. troops. He used the interview method, took plenty of time, quizzed more than 700 enlisted men: soldiers, sailors and marines; whites and Negroes. His results...