Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellow I think wants a date with me ... He must have missed the first notice." Invitation Accepted. In Milwaukee, citizens who were invited to help themselves to the kindling wood left over from the dismantling of Borchert Field also carried off the main gate, 118 benches, two tool sheds, $105 worth of tools...
...copyist of Flemish paintings. For a year (1475-76) he taught the technique in Venice, where even the great Giovanni Bellini was eager to learn from him. What Antonello brought to Bellini (and through him, to Titian, Giorgione and Italian art in general) was nothing less than a new tool for rendering light. Having accomplished that, he returned to Messina...
Lindsley, who is a student in the Department of Experimental Psychology, carried on his experiments at the Atomic Energy Commission laboratories, directed by Dr. W. W. Jetter of the Boston University Medical School. His basic tool in these experiments was a device known as the "Skinner Box." This is a small, cubby-hole sort of enclosure, in which the dog is placed. Inside the box are a feeding trough, a metal lever, and several electrical appliances, such as lights, buzzers, and horns that can be regulated from the outside. When the box is closed, it provides a perfectly controlled environment...
...first editorial of this series suggested continued compulsory attendance as the basis for tutorial revisions. Not the compulsion is a favored academic tool, but no matter how successful the revisions might be, only regular participation in the program will convince the reluctant student of tutorial's value. Since tutorial is worth having at Harvard, two basic improvements follow: There must be some spur to prepare the assignments and attend the sessions, and there must be some incentive to take an active part in the proceedings...
...Cautious Doctors. The big difference between modern medical hypnosis and old-fashioned mesmerism or "magnetism" is that doctors nowadays do not think of it as a treatment in itself, but as a handy tool to help them give other, conventional forms of treatment. Typically, under "eye fixation," the patient goes into a trance and soon tells about his Doubles. Before he is "awakened," the hypnotherapist tells him whether or not ie is to remember, on awakening, what he has said. If the decision is in favor of remembering, there will then be a conscious discussion of the problems. Sometimes...