Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, members of the National Institute of Diaper Services crowded into the Hotel Statler to witness a demonstration of the Darrah-fold, the newest method of solving the oldest problem of infant care. Their conclusion: the new technique, which applies five thicknesses of cloth where they are most needed, might revolutionize diaper-folding...
Even the unusual manner of his execution-by internal severance of an artery following spinal anaesthesia-testified to Old 81st's greatness. Veterinarians chose this method as the one most likely to keep alive enough semen for a few more calves. Failing to find it, they buried the body under the elms of the Turner ranch. As the greatest sire in Hereford history, Old 81st had already provided the epitaph for the bronze tablet that will mark his grave...
...Jean Fourcade of Strasbourg, a specialist, demonstrated a new method of ascertaining the respective positions of killed and killer in murders where a pistol is fired through a windowpane. Dr. Muller of Lille spoke on "Encouraging Toxicomania with the View of Inheriting Money." He cited the case of a British peer whose addiction to morphine had been fatally nurtured by his greedy relatives. The most striking report was made by four Yugoslav doctors on war crimes...
...astronomers did not know each other, and had taken years to work out their respective theories. But both had arrived at their conclusions by the same method-while lying on their backs, gazing at the heavens...
Last week McDonald believed that he had solved the troublesome triangle with a simple formula: pay-as-you-see. His company's scientists, he said, had perfected a method of peeling several key frequencies off the television band, channeling them through telephone wires. Without these essential frequencies, the telecast is received as a meaningless blur...