Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seven states had reported sterilization of mental defectives as follows: California, 4,500 ; Kansas, 335 ; Nebraska, 260; Oregon, 303; Wisconsin, 144 ; Indiana, 700 ; Michigan, 100.†40 days at present; 24 days in the future, by a ruling passed during the present sitting. **There are three main methods by which human beings may be prevented from propagating the species. In the case of Miss Buck, a surgeon will sever the Fallopian tubes, which function as passages from ovaries to womb. This surgical operation is known as salpingotomy. Surgical sterilization of men consists of cutting the spermatic cord, causing atrophy...
...glider, as everyone knows, is a small, motorless, extremely light-weight airplane. It usually takes the air by coasting down a hillside to gain sufficient momentum. A more modern method is to hold the glider steady, attach to its nose a shock cord made of rubber bands. Tension is applied to the shock cord and, on a given signal, the glider is flipped suddenly into the air like a pebble from a slingshot. An automatic release hook then drops the shock cord. Once in the air, the pilot of a glider must depend on air currents. Usually he circles around...
...results of all that has gone to make up American civilization for three hundred years. There is no preface that explains that the author is very sorry that the limits of his study force him to omit all but the diplomatic history of the period; nor is there any method used in the writing of the book other than that of judicious selection. The economic flavor of Professor Beard's former works, that economic bias which has done so much to discredit what its pedantic opponents have seen fit to call the "new" history, is to be found...
...dangerous method, but a necessary one. How dangerous may be realized by anyone who has ever tried to separate the big from the little in life; how necessary is known only too well to the Senior floundering in a morass of technical histories, of political histories, of diplomatic histories, of social histories, all of which revolve around the central life and spirit of a people or of an age, and none of which ever come to grips with more than a shred of the reality of history. It is to the glory of the Beards that they have succeeded...
...cultivate a close relation, to cut interviews short. For instruction, the students are met singly or in small groups of those whose reading is much the same. The consultation is kept small enough to be of the nature of a private consultation, and not of a clinic, a method quite different from that of the ordinary classroom...