Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best chance of avoiding war is, in accord with the other Western democracies, to bring matters to a head with the Soviet government . . . to arrive at a lasting settlement. There is certainly enough for the interests of all if such a settlement could be reached. . . . Even this method . . . would not guarantee that war would not come; but I believe it would give the best chance of preventing it, and that, if it came, we should have the best chance of coming out of it alive...
...CRIMSON was my method of learning about the University. The chance to talk with the faculty, officials, coaches, and students interested in a variety of activities, combined with the necessity of taking editorial positions, gave me a picture of Harvard I will always value and carry with...
March of Science. In Middletown, Conn., Professor Hubert B. Goodrich of Wesleyan University announced that he had developed a method for grafting initials on goldfish...
...should like, at the risk of being considered an "old-style language teacher" [TIME, Dec. 29], to point out that opposition to the Army method comes from those of us who accept the Harvard Committee's definition of general education's aims (i.e., "to think effectively, to communicate thought, to make relevant judgments, to discriminate among values"), and who fail to see how the mechanical parroting of sounds contributes to the achievement of these aims. . . . It is to the Army's credit that it saw its objectives clearly and went about accomplishing them in the most direct...
This was the first official slap at the ingenious new method of raising money which had bobbed up, via newspaper advertisement, in several U.S. cities. All of the schemes involved U.S. bonds and the same "money-back-in-ten-years" guarantee, plus the prospects of profits on the loan. But SEC's action in Philadelphia would not necessarily put a crimp in them. Two other money-raisers in New York got around SEC by filing details of their schemes (registering) with the agency. So long as they told all the facts, SEC could do nothing to stop them...