Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pause, and a consideration of the ground covered, but these other tracks flow gently on through vague words of pleasant connotation, rather impressively indeed. And unprovoked to thought, the reader can wander after them through a haze of prettily blurred pictures. This is no solemn warning however, for the method is used only in the attempt to be deceptively impressive, and it is doubtful if earnest writers, or weary printers, or impatient readers, will long be bothered with...
Interrogated as to just what the result of the suppression of his own and other history books used in the schools would be, Professor Muzzey replied, "It can have no possible effect on the teaching of history, either in method or matter." Professor Muzzey's book has been used considerably in schools and it has been suggested that the suppression of it might lead to a general overhauling of the teaching of history in the schools of the country...
...recent criticism in the New York Times, has prompted E. H. Rowe 1L, debating team coach, to select the Harvard debating teams hereafter by a method unique in the history of debating at Harvard, it was announced in a statement last night to the CRIMSON. The new system will eliminate, to a large extent, the old method of holding a series of tryouts to determine the personnel of the team. Instead of this procedure, a number of round table discussions will be held, which all candidates will be required to attend. At these discussions the candidates, assisted by the coach...
...lighting, snatching small fish from the waves, offal from the ship's wake. Sailors caught the albatross and aerodonetists studied its 17-ft. wingspread, its 4-ft., 25-lb. body. The albatross is the largest and strongest of seabirds, and scientists have tried to learn from it the method of its easy flight. At London last week Capt. Victor Dibovsky-43, aviator since 1908, inventor of gears to permit the firing of bullets through the revolving propellers of airplanes, winner of a British prize for inventiveness-declared that he had solved the problem. The secret lay in a depression...
...work of collecting material for book necessitated a connection with practically every electrical company in the United States. In collecting the data the following method was used, to each company on the list was sent, in addition to a questionnaire concerning the amount of electric power carried across state lines in 1926, a letter explaining in detail the purposes of the study. When this method of obtaining the desired information failed, personal calls were made...