Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...results with the records made by the men in college show that in no case did the two show more than a fifty per cent correspondence. The endeavor to diagnose by psychology what value a student will obtain from a college education was no more efficacious than the older method of testing his knowledge by examinations...
Tunneling from the cellars of neighboring buildings proved the most effective rescue method. Forty crushed and bloody corpses were soon recovered, and 26 wounded men no less bloody. Meanwhile buried survivors made known their whereabouts by tapping. When located they were succored, first by drilling small holes to admit air, next by enlarging the holes until sandwiches and heartening bottles of brandy could be passed in, and finally by excavating and propping up passages through which they could crawl. A few perished, even at this late stage, when some of the propped passageways collapsed. Injured were 30 policemen, soldiers...
...development of those [rejuvenation] treatments. t is assumed that by grafting glands rejuvenation can take place. But it is very interesting to observe that neither [Eugene] Steinach* or [Serge] Voronoff or any of the men who have been interested in rejuvenation have attempted to verify whether or not their method of treatment has brought about a real result. After all, what should be done if an operation is performed on a man 60 years old is to ascertain if, for instance, he has been brought back to 58 or 55 or 50. Now, no attempt has been made in that...
...have worn my larynx down to he consistency of shoe leather but because the forgery (let us be plain, gentlemen, even if it hurts,) is a most crabbed imitation of my true signature to which I point with pride as the result of nearly forty years practice in Palmer Method...
...swirls of scientific research, industrial promotion, amusement purveying and financial synthesis, the greatest U. S. amusement enterprise became imminent last week. Last spring Radio Corp. of America organized as a subsidiary R. C. A. Photophone Inc. to exploit a method of making and reproducing sound-pictures. Photophone is similar, and interchangeable, with Fox's movietone films. Both change sound waves to light waves, and reproduction reverses the process. Warner Bros, vitaphone uses phonographic discs for sound accompaniment with its pictures. Vitaphone and movietone had close tie-ups with cinema producing, distributing and exhibiting companies (TIME, July 9). Photophone...