Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House offices of the department of Romance Languages. For a number of years this department has been plying incoming Freshmen with placement tests, which classify students for the various elementary language courses. It is undoubtedly a fair system; students are sectioned by ability. English A could use a similar method. The single purpose Anticipatory should be scrapped for an English Placement, perhaps something on the lines of the old College Entrance Examination Board Achievement tests. Such an exam would be more difficult to compose and correct, but it would certainly split up the course into sections of comparable ability. Many...
...frontal assault on drama. Writing episodically, with tricks of stagecraft and a crutchlike use of offstage music, he has always trusted to a vague sense of poetry and a vivid sense of theater to pull him through. Here the sense of theater is weakened by wordiness and the episodic method is inadequate. The episodes themselves are often skimpy and short-breathed; the minor characters are mostly not even wooden-just beaverboard. The many scenes, instead of serving as a flight of stairs to the great burst of emotion at the end, are like stepping-stones in a rushing stream, with...
...consent decree before a circuit court last week, U.S. Steel Corp. gave up a 24-year court fight to save the "Pittsburgh plus" basing-point system of setting steel prices. The company promised to adhere "to a pricing method that does not conflict with the requirements of the Federal Trade Commission." But U.S. Steel, which had voluntarily abandoned basing points when they were outlawed in the cement industry (TIME, July 19), had not given up the fight for good; it had merely shifted the battleground. What it had lost in the courts, Big Steel, and all other steelmakers, hoped...
...Industrial Economics, was simply a ban on using basing points to fix an industry-wide price. Said Edwards: "Nothing in these orders prevents individual sellers, who act without collusion, from absorbing freight . . . In the future, as in the past, there will be a wide variety of geographic pricing methods in use by different companies and different industries. No particular method of pricing will be prescribed...
...first two volumes, at least-made of George Washington a more lovable figure for popular consumption. Readers of the seven thick volumes on Lee and his generals know that Freeman is not a portrait painter who gets his effect with quick, inspired strokes; his method is careful and cumulative. His works are what book reviewers are apt to call monumental, and monumental they literally are: built block by patient block, soundly based, immense, monochromatic-and towering high...