Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...willingness which they have shown to pay would alone insure that. "I do not mean that this implies there will be any cancellation of reparations, but I do believe Germany's ability to pay will be given marked consideration in arriving at the amount of reparations and the method of payment...
...potato was more significant than the money. After biologists had fooled around with the tuberculosis bacillus for almost 50 years, they had developed two standard methods of discovering the bacilli in sputum. One was to stain a smear with dyes and search for the germs with a microscope. That was crude and inaccurate. The other was to inject suspected sputum into guinea pigs, creatures unusually susceptible to tuberculosis. That was slow and expensive. A quicker, surer method of diagnosis was needed...
...Lester of The Hill, spoke to him about his forms, how they could help the school, how the college might be aided by them in its annual selection of potential freshmen. Dr. Lester and Headmaster Wendell benefited much from Dr. Wood's "cumulative forms" in devising the Hill method of recording progress and achievement...
...Henderson suggested a scientific method of breaking the record for a given race. "If," he said, "one were to place the record holder in an oxygen tunnel, arranged so that one could adjust the air supply reaching the runner's lungs, it would be possible to eliminate one racing difficulty; breathlessness and subsequent fatigue. Then, if one could arrange a little flag so that it would run around the track at a steady speed just a little higher than the average speed of the previous record holder, and instruct the runner to follow the flag exactly, one would eliminate another...
...particularly satisfactory method of impressing students in a given course with the inclusiveness which should be implicit in any pursuit of knowledge is the judicious addition of occasional lectures by authorities with varying points of view and experience in related fields. The present announcement of Professor Salvemini's appearance in connection with History 2 is fully in accord with the increasing flexibility of the course system...