Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vulture, the Crow, and the Raven, heirs apparent before Mosca has finished his work, are all carefully done, and rather better than either of the two feminine leads, Canina, using Blanca's method in man-hunting, has barren ground for her seed in Mosca and Volpone, but her acting lifts when she finds Carbaccio more amorously accessible. Philip Leigh, the Vulture, managed his voice as well as usual, but had a crutch, a limp, and a hunch to his black and cloaked back, just when it was hoped that the stage, at least, had seen the last of Mr. Chaney...
...that the State resume systematic anti-religious work among children. We must make our school boys and girls not merely non-religious but actively and passionately antireligious. . . . "The home influence of religious parents must be vigorously combated. . . . Skill and persuasion must be used. I do not approve the overzealous methods of some school teachers who make a practice of tearing off every crucifix which they espy on a child's neck. . . . Such methods are not efficacious. ... I also doubt the wis dom of instructing advanced classes in anti-religion by the method of dissecting before them the remains...
...HAVE THEREFORE DECIDED HEREBY TO DECREE THE CONSTITUTION OF THE KINGDOM OF 1921 ABOLISHED. THE LAWS OF THE LAND WILL REMAIN IN FORCE UNLESS CANCELED BY MY ROYAL DECREE. NEW LAWS IN FUTURE WILL BE MADE BY THE SAME METHOD. THE PARLIAMENT ELECTED NOV. 1, 1927, IS HEREBY DISMISSED...
...year will be given workers in all manufacturing departments, as well as office help. And this vacation will be with pay, an unusual arrangement in the industrial world. Meanwhile Henry Ford, announcing jobs for 30,000 more men in his Detroit plants,* declared himself in favor of a different method of assuring leisure to workingmen. His employes, drawing a minimum wage of $5 a day, will work only five days a week, be laid off two. Said Ford: "A six-day week is all right for machines but a five-day week is enough for men." Crowds...
...university. Up to the present time it has been the handi-work of private practitioners; men prey to the claims of the nervous world. It has now reached a stage when it is ready for companionship with academic psychology. Its concepts need to be exposed to the experimental method and to a rigorous criticism, and for that the men who carry on the work must be able to enjoy the kind of leisure and intellectual fellowship that it is the business of a university to provide. Psychopathology requires contact with all the various attitudes of academic psychology, the sensational, introspective...