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Word: methodism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...career student from Maidstone, England, recently developed a new fingerprint coding method for the FBI in his spare time. Malcolm K. Sparrow, a British police officer whose hobby is working with fingerprints, says he hopes the program will help him prepare for his new appointment as Chief Inspector, and move him closer to his ultimate goal of attaining the highest position in the force...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Back to School for Nation's Politicos | 1/31/1986 | See Source »

...begins The Jewel of the Nile, the latest installment in what is certain to be a long line of Romancing the Stone sequels. Succumbing to the xerox-machine method of screenwriting and directing which characterized the trend-setting originals of this genre, Raiders of the Lost Ark and its arklet, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, film executives Michael Douglas, Lewis Teague and chief xeroxers Mark Rosenthal and Lawrence Konner have produced an entirely familiar if less satisfying version of the entertaining 1983 romantic, romancing, thriller...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Boogie Down the Nile | 1/31/1986 | See Source »

GOLDILOCKS HAD THE RIGHT IDEA, but the wrong method. Instead of considering which bed, chair, or bowl of porridge would fit best, and then trying it, she tried them all blindly and stopped when she got it right...

Author: By Jonathan S. Steuer, | Title: Goldilocks Rock | 1/10/1986 | See Source »

...read at a fourth-grade level." Mallory looks pleased again. "I taught him myself, by my own special method. If he don't know a word, I make him write it ten times. I make him read a book every night, until he's got it. I've been doing this for years. But Michael's teachers tell me not to teach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...Because of your method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

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