Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...viewpoint of geography is an indispensable tool in the solution of problems of international relations. The United States, especially during wartime, desperately needs geographers. A good many of these take their undergraduate training in another field while becoming acquainted with geography, then specialize in graduate school. But due to the severely subdued position of geography here, the average Harvard undergraduate is unaware of the existence of the subject as a serious academic concern. If geography's position is not improved, few, if any graduates from the College will enter this vital field...
...with evenly-spaced, pointed buttresses made of mud that speared high above the slanted roof. Weese tucked it away for future reference. Then he went hunting for mahogany, which turned out to be so plentiful in Accra that it is used for Coca-Cola crates. Using that primitive tool of building research, the knife, he personally verified two facts: 1) termites feast on mahogany (the reason builders had stopped using it), but. 2) heartwood mahogany, placed well up from the ground, had resisted the white ants 60 years and more. He also checked his belief that, treated with modern preservatives...
Hanson interprets the present increase in the number of students in the program as evidence that "some departments are becoming more familiar with course reduction as a tool and as a regular part of the program for Honors students." In the past, most students in the program have been History and Literature concentrators...
...Time. In Corfu, N.Y., town fathers were trying to replace a policeman, school-crossing guard, water-system operator, snowplow driver, tree trimmer, refuse collector, meter reader and general maintenance man after Leonard J. Gardner quit his $3,225-a-year town job to go to work in a tool and die works...
Some Jewish children are reported to be suffering the same discrimination. Anti-Gomulka Communists are obviously exaggerating the situation for propaganda purposes, to suggest that Gomulka is a tool of the church. But there is no doubt that many Catholics are in fact getting a measure of revenge for years of persecution. Latest development: the formation of the Secular School Society "to protect the children of non-believers against all manifestations of discrimination...