Word: imparted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smith is a man with a vision, and he spends a good deal of his time and money attempting, with varying degrees of success, to impart it to others...
Helmholz has even more exotic skills to impart. He does a brisk business styling men's chest hair into shamrocks, peace signs, hearts and other shapes on request. His torso tonsures, however, are done strictly with clippers...
What we need now, more than ever, is the knowledge which is of positive value to man in increasing his understanding of the world. Our education needs to impart a quality of judgment. The great challenge to educators is to combine the teaching of skills with that broader understanding. The view that the best education need not be relevant, even on a broad definition of relevance, condemns us to failure in our efforts to cope with a fast changing world...
...curriculum to grant degrees in nuclear medical technology and business administration. John Shingleton, placement director at Michigan State and an early critic of "impractical" education, has instituted an "executive in residence" program that brings General Motors managers to live on campus for a week with liberal-arts majors and impart to them a feeling for the "real world." Boston's Northeastern University has long been famous for its "coop" system under which students for five years alternate course work and full-time employment, on the road to a B.A. Career Services Director Frank Heuston boasts that 77% of Northeastern...
...idea of the lion dance is to impart good luck to local merchants. During the course of the six-hour dance, the lion and its considerable entourage of flag-bearers, cymbal-clangers and general curiousity-seekers visit every business establishment in the neighborhood...