Word: pureness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...time that the evacuation was ordered in Old Quincy, there was no smell of gas inside the building, said Andres D. Uribe ’12, who was inside when the alarm sounded. While gas in its pure form is odorless, it is odorized before delivery to households...
...time that the evacuation was ordered in Old Quincy, there was no smell of gas inside the building, said Andres D. Uribe ’12, who was inside when the alarm sounded. While gas in its pure form is odorless, it is odorized before delivery to households...
...have to be a Wall Street analyst to do the quick math: with a carrier cost of one-third of a penny, when a customer pays 15 cents to send a message, 98% of that 15 cents is pure profit. (Of course, you already knew that in your gut; that's why your stomach turns every time you examine your cell-phone bill...
...people who created the SAT, back when the letters stood for Scholastic Aptitude Test, thought they had made an exam that measured the pure capacity of students' minds to absorb college material; the SAT was a direct descendant of early IQ tests. So imagine their surprise when one day in the 1950s, a Brooklyn, N.Y., high school principal arrived at the headquarters of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, N.J., bearing the news that a young man named Stanley Kaplan was operating a thriving little business out of his parents' basement coaching students on how to raise their scores...
...However, there is a bigger issue at stake here. To think of public speaking as something that can be practiced in an ideal section mischaracterizes it as a pure skill instead of an art form. There’s a big difference between an adequate orator and an inspiring one, and the difference does not lie in avoiding obvious faux pas, like not breaking into a terrible sweat or remembering the rules of grammar. Undergraduates could probably figure out the mechanics of public speaking without lessons. But when it comes to crafting a persuasive message and delivering...