Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over 100 men turned out for House grid practice yesterday, Samborski and House secretaries conferred in an attempt to work out a method of playing that will minimize accidents...
Statistics prove your method inexact...
...there will be 24 million TV sets in U.S. homes. But TV will need "three to four times the total annual output of the U.S. film industry." Who is to pay for this increased output? "The simple truth is that either pictures must be made more cheaply or a method must be found for the public to foot the bill...
...used a class-participation technique in this course. He frequently got to his points via answers to questions he threw at students chosen from his little list. This system forced the students to keep up with their work, which bothered many of them. The real trouble with the method, however, is that it makes students listen to each other, which is always dull, when they could be listening to Professor Miller, which is often fascinating and--this I judge by two other courses I have taken with him--sometimes inspiring...
During a 10½-year period the sanitarium treated 2,323 patients (93% were men) by the emetine method. They were of every type: business and professional men, neurotics, former inmates of state institutions. They received no other treatment, but were encouraged to stay sober by social workers. The results: 85% stayed sober for six months, 70% for a year, 60% for two years, 55% for three years, 40% for four years, more than 30% up to seven years, 25% up to 10½ years or longer...