Word: tool
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...connection with the Industrial Management department of the University Business School and through the courtesy of the National Acme Company of Winslow, Vermont, a five reel film showing machine tool factory operations from the raw material to the finished product will be shown at 2 o'clock, Monday, October 16, at Pierce 110. All members of the class in industrial management are advised but not required to attend...
...state of mind brought about by this situation is not one calculated to make the undergraduate regard the requirements before him as "a tool to use instead of a hurdle to jump". The Junior who finds himself on probation because of failure to show a reading knowledge of one language or an elementary knowledge of the other, in spite of three or more attempts to pass the requirement, feels himself unjustly treated. Worse than that, he loses entirely any benefit from the original object of the Requirements,--to force on every undergraduate a working ability to read text-books...
...interest to give a few illustrations of the old adage, "There is nothing new under the sun," For instance, how many people know that many years before the discovery of America, the Indians inhabiting the area now known as New England had brought that nearly universal tool, the adze, to its highest degree of development in form and variety. The blades were made of a fine-grained stone capable of being worked to a good cutting edge. No where else in the world had this implement so many specialized shapes, each form being carefully adapted to a certain type...
...Sing-Sing death chamber. Another man won damages against his employer because, while engaged in his work, he was mistaken for a rabbit by a party of hunters and filled full of buckshot. Another award was made on the fact that a man accidentally cut himself with a tool with which he was trying to ease a tight shoe on his own foot...
...autobiography of the president's secretary, for the greater man is distinctly secondary. It is scarcely believable that the writer deliberately set out to belittle Mr. Wilson to his own advantage; yet the impression which one first receives from the book is of a weakling acting as the tool of his secretary's superior intelligence, an impression far removed, by the way, from that given by Boswell. If we were to take the book at its face value, the effect would be grossly to lessen our respect for the great man. Yet the introduction denies this earnestly; and a knowledge...