Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disagree with the Klan in method. We believe their method is too much like the old adage of 'burning down the house to get rid of the rats'. . . We regret deeply that some of our fellow citizens, our friends and neighbors, have seen fit to organize a Ku Klux Klan in Thomson ... it is our earnest hope that these our friends will soon come to see the Klan idea for what we honestly believe it to be, a dangerous mistake...
World War I Veteran Brand, a onetime shipping clerk who lost his job in the '30s, has been a hospital attendant since 1935. In 1947, after observing for a week at an Illinois state hospital, where the law forbids restraint, he got permission to try the method. In his own ward at the Milwaukee County Asylum, 32 patients had been tied up. He took the restraints off every one. Says he: "The freed patients were like horses that were tied up for years in the barn. Let them go and they run and kick. So I let them. They...
...detailed article about the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Society--its history, method of election, and current activities--appears on page four...
...could be that Historian Max Beloff of Oxford did not explain what could be done about the immaturity of higher education in the U.S. [TIME, March 28] . . . because he wasn't asked. If he were asked, he need merely to point with pride to the method and record of Oxford...
Secretary Brannan proposed to let the price of food fall where it would on a free market, while guaranteeing farmers a whopping big cash income, no matter how cheaply their crops sold in the marketplace. To hear him tell it he had "a method which not only protects the farmer but gives consumers a real break...