Word: methods
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Salt taxation has been since the earliest times a favorite method of governmental enrichment. Ancient Rome set the World its first example of a government farsighted enough to attempt to decrease the price of salt to its citizens. At first, each Roman legionary received a daily allowance of salt; later this was paid in "money to buy salt" (salarium), from which the modern word "salary" is derived...
...something of a surprise to find Mr. Bradford apparently changing his method of attack. His previous work, "Damaged Souls," for instance, has dealt largely with people as such and left their life-work and their historical significance to someone else. It may be that this apparent change only reflects the discovery the writer made: namely, that there is very little to Darwin outside his scientific pursuits. He depicts a marvellous scientific machine with human attributes. Time and again, he attempts to draw some picture of what the man was like, what his family thought of him, how he disciplined...
...each year: in the Law School its graduates rank in number second only to those of Harvard itself. I cannot see that the last number of the Lampoon will have any visible effects on the friendship existing between Harvard and Princeton graduate students, but it does seem a dubious method of encouraging it. We in the Law School have heard of Burke's saying that, "Law sharpens the mind must be narrowing while we are here, let it be by some other agency...
...Goodrich Co. will manufacture according to this new method, which in all respects duplicates the electroplating of objects with metals. Only instead of a metallic salt solution (copper sulphate, for example), finely divided rubber is held, not in solution, but in emulsion. The negative wire of an electrical circuit is attached to any desired mold, which is placed in the emulsion. The positive wire is suitably attached to the container. Then the flowing current drives the particles of rubber on to the mold. There is absolute control of the process at all times...
...best sincerity, are puerile; a nation is not to be corrupted as an innocent child; visitors may have dangerous ideas but until those ideas are expressed within the national boundaries they should be allowed to proceed in peace. Dismissal of an unruly guest is a far more civilized method of maintaining order than barring the door to all suspicious and unconventional applicants. The phrase "a free country" appears to have been lost in the jumble of distorted democracy. To allow radicals to enter the United States is not necessarily a proclamation of national radicalism; but not to allow them, especially...