Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, of the greater or lesser critics of things educational are going to judge this latest method of hedging the college degree by such whimsical, tenuous phenomena. They will want to know definitely whether or not this ordeal of fire really tested any ability, really helped an individual toward what might be called "sweetness" what can be called "light...
Track athletes, straining across the finish line, are timed by stopwatches in one-fifths and one-tenths of a second. Last week, at Cornell University, Professor A, "V. Hill. British physiologist, demonstrated electrical devices that will record a runner's time to 1/200 second. The method involves burying electric coils in the ground at intervals across the finish line; tying a light, magnetized sheet of metal to the runner's waist. The magnet induces brief electric currents in the buried coils as the runner flashes in. Electricity, literally lightning swift, may quicken many a "dead" (tied) heat, shave...
...will report at once, in person, to the President of the United States." On the other side of Rock Creek he saw Secretary Root and President Roosevelt. Plunging into the rain-swollen, swift-flowing stream, he urged his horse across, arrived wet, triumphant. His summons was merely a Rooseveltian method of inviting him to the White House for dinner. Later in the year (1906) Roosevelt, looking for a U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, remembered the stream-crosser, appointed Henry Lewis Stimson who, in addition to being Sergeant Stimson of Squadron A, was also Lawyer Stimson...
...Method: To obtain satisfactory television on a large screen, 300,000 optical fragments must be transmitted and received each second. The best speed of Inventor Baird of London has been 30,000 to the second. By the new Bell system, a rate of 45,000 to a second is maintained. In the new system, as in Inventor Baird's, the object to be transmitted is divided up into many parts by beams of light flowing through a revolving disc. The variations of light and shade on the face are changed into variations of electrical current by three large photo...
Pittsburgh officials, frightened at the appearance of rabies in their district, have devised an efficient method of killing stray dogs. Three motorized wagons patrol the streets. Each wagon has an air-tight box into which the poisonous exhaust gases of the motor enter. Whenever the dog-catcher on the driver's seat sights an unmuzzled dog unattended by a human, he tries to snare it. If he does catch the dog, he heaves it into the suffocating box and soon the live dog is a dead...