Word: instruments
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After the patient's head is shaved, he is given a local anesthetic at a carefully calculated spot on his head. Dr. Cooper then makes an incision and bores a hole in the patient's skull. He places a bow-shaped instrument of his own design around the patient's head, and using the instrument as a guide, carefully threads a long cannula (tube) toward the thalamus at the center of the brain...
...What the news press and the American people need at this time," said Maier, "is an authoritative and clear-cut assurance from this Administration that there is no place in its program for the use of the lie as an instrument of national policy." Editors and publishers are "concerned," he added, "when an Administration official speaks of using news as a weapon in the cold war, of controlling and managing the flow of news, and even of the Government's 'right...
Classroom methodology could also be improved by using questions-and-answers for the purpose of teaching, as well as testing. It is well-known that students often learn from answering questions on examinations, but hour exams and finals are scanty teaching instrument. Why not incorporate the asking of insightful questions into the regular procedure? Specifically, the instructor might regularly assign questions which deal with fundamental aspects of the course material and which are designed to stimulate insight, but which can be--and are required to be--answered in a small number of words, ranging perhaps from...
...Intellect has become an instrument of national purpose," and the uses made of it by the East and West will be extremely important "in the war of the ideological worlds," Clark Kerr declared last night in his final Godkin lecture...
While "Intellect" becomes an instrument for national policy, and the university becomes more involved in community life, grave problems still remain for the internal affairs of the university...