Word: tools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tutors apparently underestimated the strength of the senior faculty's commitment to the thesis as an educational instrument. "The senior faculty feels very strongly that the thesis is the backbone of the entire program," said one tutor. The thesis is invaluable as "a pedagogical tool," said Gordon S. Wood, the Department's assistant senior tutor, which "gives the student the best understanding of the nature of history that he will get in four years here." The senior seminar would have bypassed the thesis, and there were also financial difficulties in setting up a large seminar program...
...time when assimilation, intermarriage and secularism are eroding U.S. Judaism, religious education has become a major Jewish tool for survival. The Jewish school system in the U.S.-Hebrew-or Yiddish-language day schools, plus afternoon and Sunday schools that teach only religion-is now a $100 million operation with 700,000 students and 17,000 teachers...
...with a few exceptions-signify aggressive intentions" but merely a feeling of remaining emotionally "linked to their homeland." The statement mirrored current moderate West German sentiment, although official German policy will continue to withhold formal recognition of the Oder-Neisse boundary in hopes of using it as a bargaining tool toward reunification...
...your story "The Gem of the Gizmos" [Dec. 3], you forgot to mention the use of the paper clip as a surgical tool. Heated in a Bunsen burner, it provides the ideal method of releasing the blood under a smashed fingernail-better than a dentist's drill, a sharp knife, etc. It is painless (the blood cools the clip as soon as it burns through) and fast...
...this area, full of cherry orchards, it is well known that the best tool for hand-pitting fresh sour cherries is a paper clip opened once lengthwise...