Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus far American Research and Development has invested in a Mississippi enterprise using high-pressure hydraulics in pumps and motors, aviation and tank degreasing processes, a Texas frozen shrimp business, a process that converts electrical energy into heat for industrial use, an da method of making a flexible tubing to carry hot and cold...
...major defect in the present method, by which the government maintains a minimum price by loans or purchases, is that consumers often suffer by high prices. The Brannan plan continues government loans and purchases for storable goods, about 25 percent of total farm output, but changes the price-setting formula. Producers are satisfied with this method and want it retained...
...ovary and makes ovulation possible; in the male, it stimulates tubules in the testes that produce sperm. Dr. Li isolated it from the pituitary glands of freshly killed sheep. Since other researchers were looking for it, too, Dr. Li says: "I was damn lucky. I hit on the right method." With the same sort of "luck," he was also the first to isolate four other hormones, including ACTH. More work will have to be done on FSH before it can be tried on humans as a cure for some forms of infertility...
...varsity race will be a test of Bolles' stroking system versus the high-beat, pinwheel method which BU's Jim Nesworthy favors. The Terriers will take the entire race at close to 40, while the Crimson will probably stick at its usual 31 pace except at the finish. This variation in technique will almost certainly mean that BU will take an early lead. The thing to watch will be how long it can hold...
...five days a week, sometimes takes work home to his apartment on Fifth Avenue or his country home in Westchester County. He smokes and drinks only occasionally, has no hobbies ("I play a little golf but not very well"), and seldom goes out evenings. He has a simple method for keeping his razor-sharp mind honed: "I just like to work...