Word: twofold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City Councillors insisted on knowing why Rudolph couldn't proceed faster on the installation of traffic signals. As Rudolph explained them his difficulties are twofold. First, he is overburdened with routine work. For example, he said, just several weeks ago, one of his new traffic patterns in Brattle Square had angered a local businessman so much that the Director had to make a special study of the Brattle area. And, then, he continued, during every snow-storm he is faced with the minor crisis of clearing Cambridge's streets and getting traffic moving. These excuses seemed weak...
...Twofold Path. When the modern world broke into Asia during the 19th century, Buddhism resisted. In the Boxer Rebellion, Buddhist deities were relied on for help against the Christian bullets. In Indo-China, Burma and elsewhere, Buddhism became identified with the nationalist struggle against colonial rule...
...quietly as their bellowing engines will permit, U.S. Navy and Air Force jets have been flying reconnaissance missions over Laos since last May. Their purpose is twofold: to keep an eye on the Communist Pathet Lao, who have been relatively passive lately, and to see who or what is filtering down from North Viet Nam along the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos and into South Viet Nam. Last week, three days apart, two U.S. jets were knocked down by Communist guns near the murkily marked "panhandle" where North Viet Nam forms a narrow corridor between Laos...
...answer is twofold. First, since the single wing is practically extinct, teams no longer construct defenses to cope with it. Princeton's opponents must hastily slap together new defensive formations, with no time for the players to learn them well...
...purposes of this division, which we shall call General Education Electives, are twofold. First, we wish to preserve a place in the Program for courses by distinguished members of the Faculty without the requirement that they fit into either of the other two main divisions. Second, we wish to keep for the Committee on General Education a domain in which they can experiment with a new course offerings, for example in non-Western cultures and creative arts, that may not fit into the other divisions...