Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...method of evangelizing he described in his quaint autobiography: "Whenever I saw a man committing a sin, I reproved him, and then a multitude would gather around me. I would then begin to speak to them from a text of the Scripture, and would continue to speak as long as there was anyone to hear. Then the policeman would lay hold upon me, and drag me off to the police office, and my wife would get me out, and I would begin to preach again as if nothing had happened. Altogether I was nine or ten times in prison...
Last week's Christian Century reported the novel method by which 60 plump matrons of Pastor M. B. Lord's Kensington Methodist Church at Berlin, Conn., measured out the substantial token of their esteem for him. 'Midst much giggling and chaffing they passed tape measures about one another's waists. Total was 4,114 inches, an average of 68.5666 inches per matron. Unabashed, they gathered together a cent for each girth-inch; gave the $41.14 to their parson...
...lobster to be immersed suddenly in boiling water. So decided the members of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, after careful consideration, in London a fortnight ago. They protested to restaurateurs against this barbaric treatment of the inarticulate lobster; sought to discover a more humane method of killing...
...Germany and the U. S. are not represented. *First three letters of the French word panne, meaning "difficulty." The English flying term, "pancake," a verb describing a method of coming to earth with supporting surfaces of the ship flattened to retard the descent and prevent somersaulting, does not connote disaster though fliers are sometimes obliged to "pancake" when damage to their controls or weather and ground conditions make other tactics impossible. šThe original marine distress signal was "C Q D" ("Come Quick Danger"). This was replaced by the simplest and most unmistakable code letters "S O S " (. . . . - - - . .). To these...
With his sisters' marriage to Sun Yatsen, Nationalist leader, he immediately cast in his lot with the southerners., Rising immediately to the head of the Finance Department he completely revolutionized the old method of tax collecting. The old system with all its red tape and abuses was completely scraped and a new organization started in which each collector was responsible directly to the Finance Minister for the taxes he raised. An immediate increase in revenue was necessary in order to pay for the battles, sieges and salaries which were necessary for the new southern forces which were combating armless backed...