Word: tinning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Tin Chef —not quite Iron, but stilly pretty hardcore...
...Onion Cellar, a dark nightclub in Gunter Grass’ 1959 novel “The Tin Drum,” those who can’t cry cut onions. The tears may not be real at first, but once things get rolling, the emotional release turns genuine...
...antique vehicles, restored historic homesteads and artifacts bring academic concepts to life and serve as the bases for class projects. When eleventh graders study early-American economic systems, the village becomes their classroom for nine weeks. Exhibit curators often lead class discussions at the sawmills, weaving stations and tin-making shops inside the craftworks district, and on the lawns of Thomas Edison's laboratory, the working soybean farm and antebellum tobacco plantation that dot the property...
...team projects, students get a hands-on feel for the low-tech production practices of the era by making cheese graters in the tin shop and using looms to weave belts, under the supervision of museum staff. "It's one thing to sit at your desk and read about economic development and have a teacher give you notes," says Michael Trail, a senior who took the class last year. "It's a totally different thing to go into the village and see it firsthand...
...interview with The Crimson, Dodd said his comparatively low national profile, combined with his extensive political experience, could be an asset on the campaign trail—but that he would keep an open mind about his prospects. “I don’t have a tin ear—I think I know the difference between courtesy and commitment,” he said. “The dominant issue for me is: ‘Do I bring something special to this?’, ‘Do I bring a special experience...