Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first big job Engineer Hoover had was to introduce U. S. methods in Australia's goldfields. Then, aged 25, he advised on mines and railroads for the late Emperor Kwang-Hsü of China. He introduced U. S. methods to Kyshtym in South Russia, making an oldtime estate of the Romanovs' into a mining centre where young Russian engineers soon pilgrimaged to complete their education. Italy engaged Engineer Hoover one summer to prospect in the Alps for the iron old Romans must have used for their swords.* Engineer Hoover and his brother, Theodore Jesse Hoover (who lives...
State's Attorney Crowe: "Bombings have become a recognized method of creating public sympathy and increasing the flow of revenues for reform or political purposes...
Writer Saleski defines "Jew" and "Jewish" at the start. He uses them not in "their religious or national sense. The method of approach is purely a racial one. He has isolated all these musicians into this one volume for the simple reason that all of them have in their veins that fire to which the Jewish prophets gave utterance in the time of Jerusalem's glory. . . . He is not concerned with their religion, past or present, but solely with their racial roots, as in the case of the Damrosch family. . . ." He proceeds then with his catalog. Among others...
...method is simple: decentralization of authority and detail work. Let the president of a university be the leader of a cultural squadron and not its water boy. Last week Glenn Frank applied this theory to the British Empire and suggested that H. R. H. the Prince of Wales be the leader. In The Club-Fellow & Washington Mirror, for 39 years a rival of Town Topics, Glenn Frank wrote...
...method of scoring was similar to that used in track meets, the dormitory winning each event being awarded five points, the second receiving three, and the third...