Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organizations with different men at the helm of each, in January, 1924, was widely hailed as conducive to increased efficiency because of the detailed functions assigned to the Emergency Fleet Corporation. As a matter of fact, the Shipping Board retains absolute control by the simple, yet efficacious, method of demanding a blanket resignation from each Emergency Fleet Corporation President before he takes office. To date Lasker, Farley, Palmer, Crowley have "resigned." Brigadier General A. C. Dalton was handed the shaky sceptre last week. He has already "handed in his resignation" to the Shipping Board, although the latter graciously will...
Gaily he last week horrified somnolent Republican vacationists by a manifesto. He offered a simple Western method for excising the putridity of the Pennsylvania primary...
...once in every science; inventing new sciences and mapping their courses in a few terse words. Utility and power were to be the ends for the new knowledge that he described. Like Aristotle he believed in man's ability to conquer nature. But he corrected Aristotle's method of examining nature, instituting a "new organon" of inductive logic-accumulating facts, theorizing later. He destroyed a great number of scholastic "Idols" by his penetrating inquiries and was hailed even by Frenchmen, who dedicated their great Encyclopedia to him just as Englishmen founded the Royal Society (1660) in his name...
...peeresses proposed for admission would be nominated by any competent tribunal to any legislative body at all. . . . Some of these ladies were made peeresses because otherwise there was no prospect of a male heir. Many of them have proved disappointing even from that standpoint. . . . The entire method of constituting the House of Lords ought to be changed, and when that is done women ought to be selected from the whole population of the country...
...playwrights, the actors, the producers, and the press solidly favor the citizens' Jury. They feel that by this method only can the clammy fingers of legal censorship be kept from the throat of the drama. With the exception of determined radicals these same forces feel that some honest and clear-headed curb is necessary...