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  • The Polytechnic is a dynamic institution that is acknowledged as the national standard in technological education.

    Universities Save Time and Money With Open-Xchange 2006

  • The duke afterwards prepared for and entered the Polytechnic, which is said to demand more hard study than any other school in the world.

    France in the Nineteenth Century Elizabeth Latimer 1863

  • Note 9: The 'Polytechnic' pertains to the anti-dictatorship student movement whose organisational nucleus was the Polytechnic University in central Athens.

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • Among the two hundred and odd fellow-students of Foch at the Polytechnic was another young man from the south ” almost a neighbor of his and his junior by just three months ” Jacques Joseph Cesaire Joffre, who had entered the school in 1869, interrupted his studies to go to war, and resumed them shortly before Ferdinand Foch entered the Polytechnic.

    Foch the Man Laughlin, Clara E 1918

  • He chose the latter and entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute RPI in Troy, New York, when he was 13.

    Ellen Sterling: The Sound of Music Just Keeps Getting Better So That Today It Is Astounding Ellen Sterling 2011

  • Equipped with a sheet of glass, glue and a Swann-Morton No 11 scalpel, she emerged from Manchester Polytechnic, where she studied graphic design, calling herself a "monteur" and with certain key artistic influences in place.

    Linder, the artist with the hex factor 2011

  • In a study conducted at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, researchers found that postmenopausal women who drank 1.5 cups of water before a meal reported that they felt fuller.

    The Small Change Diet Keri Gans 2011

  • Another al-Qaeda recruit with an American science degree is Yazid Sufaat, a graduate in biochemistry of California Polytechnic State University who set up Green Laboratory Medicine Company in Kandahar in 2001 to acquire anthrax and other biological weapons.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • "After this fiasco the whole world will have a renewed look at these spent fuel pools," said Woo Chung-ho , a nuclear expert at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

    Beijing Says Its Reactors Are Safe Brian Spegele 2011

  • He chose the latter and entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute RPI in Troy, New York, when he was 13.

    Ellen Sterling: The Sound of Music Just Keeps Getting Better So That Today It Is Astounding Ellen Sterling 2011

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