Word: methods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...method would be to scan the lost and found columns of a Manhattan newspaper and then take five simple steps...
...that the Institute is wholly voluntary and unofficial, deliberative and not for action. "We are forever tinkering the machinery of Government," said Dr. Garfield. "Why not let it stand as it is ... when by the simple device of conference we may accomplish all that is desirable? Conference, the educational method, is the most potent . . . because it dispels ignorance and drives out fear; it discovers men of good will and substitutes the common welfare for common avarice...
...method would be to scan the lost and found columns of a Manhattan newspaper and then take five simple steps: 1) pick out the name of a woman who has lost some article of value and call her up "long distance collect"; 2) inform this lady that her lost article has been found and will be returned if she will telegraph the necessary round-trip fare to the finder at Asbury Park, N. J.; 3) go to the telegraph office; 4) collect the money; 5) vanish...
Nitric Acid. Chemists Guy B. Taylor and T. A. Chilton of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co. urged U. S. manufacturers to speed their adoption of the European method of making nitric acid? from ammonia, one pound of which will replace five pounds of Chilean nitrate...
...extensive series of experiments on some 200 trees, shrubs and other plants that produce a sap with the characteristics of rubber. Mr. Firestone said of him: "No one knows more about rubber than Edison." Said Mr. Edison of the Dutch East Indies report: "There is no doubt that the method will greatly increase output as well as cheapen it. ... I am not working to cheapen rubber. ... I believe enough rubber can be grown in the U. S. to. pull us through [in case of war]. The price is not serious in such a case...