Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best means of saving the men on a sunken submarine," he went on, "is to try to raise the boat in a hurry. This is usually impossible, and no method of removing men alive from a trapped vessel has yet proved satisfactory. My suggestion would be to have a lock arrangement constructed in the submarine, through which the men could pass one at a time, and on the outside have them met by divers with extra helmets, who would accompany them...
...Valentine Haiiy, a Frenchman, saw a troupe of blind beggars performing tricks in the street. Touched by the spectacle, he determined to find some way to aid blind people, some way in which, if they could never see, they might at least learn to read. His method, a system of printing books with embossed letters, was developed and improved by Louis Braille. The code which bears his name is an alphabet in which the letters are represented by raised dots, differing in number and position...
...begin it. The solution of the problem thus presented seems to rest on the development of means to train the very young mind without menace to its health and happiness. In other words the problem is one which we have to work out for ourselves. We cannot borrow the method from Europe, where the conditions peculiar to our life have not arisen. Boston Transcript...
...another year in an office bring him to 26 before he takes up practice. In medicine he is even later, with the four years in the medical school and one in a hospital, so that he is at least 27 when he begins to earn his living. One method of shortening the period is the socalled combined degree whereby professional studies start after two or three years in college, the first year or two in the professional school being counted towards the degrees both of that school and of the college. We have never adopted that plan here, because...
...which this suspension of lectures or other classroom exercises shall not apply, and it shall in no case apply to courses regularly open to Freshmen. Furthermore, courses in which section-meetings or conferences are held many continue such sections or conferences: and courses which are conducted largely by the method of classroom discussion may continue such exercises as the instructor in charge thinks wise...