Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...didn't like TIME at first, but you're getting me. Your magazine is certainly extraordinary, both in the range of real news it collects, and its utterly unusual method and ability in treatment. I should prefer a little less sprightliness in your discussion of some religious topics-but you can't help that...
Muscle Shoals. At the President's suggestion in his message last December, Congress passed a resolution directing a joint committee to receive bids and determine the best method of disposing of the Government's power-fertilizer producing political white elephant. The committee reported (TIME, May 10, MUSCLE SHOALS), but not unanimously, and Congress just couldn't find time to settle the difficult problem at this session...
...will not shoot. ... If any gentleman here finds it necessary to take further issue with my honor, let him fire at me. I will not return his fire. I shall not resort to this stupid, inconclusive, and barbaric method of settling a quarrel which has been forced* upon me. I had hoped that because of my services to Poland no Pole would take my life. I have been shot at and missed. Had I shot I would not have missed. But I, for my part, I am unwilling to shoot another Pole...
...Commonwealth College Fortnightly (Mena, Ark.) recently discoursed on the art of hitchhiking, i.e., the method of progressing from place to place without fare, by the simple means of cadging rides from motorists...
...Harvard men left on base will testify. He showed signs of weakening in the ninth, however, and was removed in favor of Danzell, ace boxman for the Bruins. In the first game of the Harvard-Brown series, Danzell showed himself weak in fielding bunts, and it was by this method that the home club eked out a win the tenth stanza...