Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...willing to put themselves in my hands but you imply by suggestion that newspaper men do not trust my word. I do not believe that you will find any newspaper men who question the accuracy of any statement that I make to them. I regret that the method you have used in quoting the article gives that impression...
...translated Papini's Life of Christ. She raised two daughters by the method of her friend, Signora Montessori of Rome. Her study is on a Vermont farm...
...time of the Greeks. Even then they called it consumption. But its cause was unknown until, in 1882, Robert Koch (1843-1910) discovered the Bacillus tuberculosis. At about that time, 1879-80, there were approximately 163,000 deaths annually (326.2 per 100,000) in the U.S. Koch foreshadowed the method of preventing the disease. Since then unceasing preventive work has reduced its ravages in the U. S. until last year, as Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, who is responsible for the work of the U. S. Public Health Service, told the International Union, there were only...
...trained geologist recognized that on many pages the author makes no "rigorous distinction between the ascertained facts of geology and of the many speculative considerations" of his thesis; and the author wisely and carefully calls frequent attention to his method of attaining "simplicity of statement," so that the non-geologist will not be misled...
...method is haphazard and strangely rhythmic, and the result is very fair theatre without being at all stagey. Bound between covers, it runs thin in the reading; but it is so evidently made for seeing and not for reading that this criticism cannot touch the author's craft...