Word: tooling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dwight D. Eisenhower, who got bad notices in Britain with publication of his Crusade in Europe* last November, got even worse ones in the U.S.S.R. "Characteristic aversion for facts," shrilled Moscow's New Times. What's more, the general was just a "parade commander in chief ... a tool" of Winston Churchill, and a "true Wall Street lackey" who "falsifies history...
...being our Maker, why not attribute to Him capability for a loftier point of view than any of those possessed by man? Is it possible that He created him to love, and that the knowledge intelligent men of science have amassed is intended to be only a tool to that...
Members of the State Department have called the Seminar "the best method yet devised of presenting America to Europeans." But since its start, the school has avoided any official connection with the Government lest Europeans consider it a propaganda tool. Even so, many of the students, particularly in 1947, came to the Seminar on the lookout for indoctrination in the "American way." Often they were surprised to discover that the Americans on the faculty and staff were willing to examine criticism of the United States. The democratic atmosphere, at the Casile made propaganda unnecessary. Most of the Europeans were impressed...
...caught if anything happens," said Farmer Clarence Horton. Horton, who farms 200 acres on a 50-50 basis with the owner, started from scratch 20 years ago; the last five years have set him firmly on his feet. He now owns two tractors and a combine; his barn and tool sheds are jammed with plows, harrows, seeders. "I have bought everything I am going to buy," said Horton. "I've got a full line of equipment, about $10,000 worth, I guess, and I'm going to keep...
...much stronger emphasis on writing for specific purposes, the type of writing that will be most valuable to people when they graduate. The familiar English A themes will give way to a string of medium-length papers in the basis GE courses, making the student's writing a tool to aid him in learning, not an educational obstacle to be overcome and forgotten...