Word: twofold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object of the Putnam Arctic Expedition was twofold; to investigate life among the Esquimos, now fast disappearing of North Greenland, and to secure specimens of all the sea mammals and fish of the region, these to be placed in the American Museum of Natural History...
News dispatches from New York announce the opening of the national headquarters of the "American Association for Adult Education" after two years of preparatory work by the Carnegie Foundation. The association has a twofold significance...
...purpose of the Student Employment office is twofold: primarily to supply the man with such work as will enable him to meet his expenses, and incidentally to give him such work, whenever possible, as will enable him to make the most progress after graduation. It is frequently the case that work which is not so profitable from a monetary standpoint will give the undergraduate experience which will later save him much time getting oriented in the business which he enters after leaving college...
...Inaugural Address suggested that "two kinds of men make good teachers--young men and men who never grow old." There is apparently no better method for aging a man prematurely than an over dose of modern scholarship. Professor Kirsopp Lake in his course on the Old Testament has a twofold method of instruction. He reads the King James Version of the Bible to his students so beautifully, so inspiringly, that they want to discover for themselves the beauty and the inspiration of the work. And be delivers for themselves the beauty and the inspiration of the work. And he delivers...
...equality of opportunity, we mean not only that business must be free from undue interference and oppression by the government, but also that it must be free from undue entangling alliances with the government. ... If you complain of too much government in business, I answer that the solution is twofold: put more business into government and more self-government into business...