She described attending customs school at an old military barracks in Liestal and breaking through the barriers of a male-dominated industry that hadn't yet adjusted to women in the workplace.
Unalaska is so far away and its weather so fickle, few teams want to go there, leading to another odd custom of school sports life in the state: Unalaska pays other high schools to come play against its students.
Ms. Rowe said that by custom, private schools were not supposed to dip into their waiting lists after the enrollment deadline had passed.
It's a school custom, like knowing port from starboard.
The custom at my school, and many others like it, was to make birthday boys go "through the mill".
Alexander Ross tells him about a rather frightening old school custom connected with the tower, which is no longer observed.
Bryce Goodman, who arrived in 2004 and is therefore, according to school custom, a member of the Class of '04, says, "I've heard the voice of the desert, but I was really drunk at the time".
In Brave New World (the title is just the most visible of countless Shakespeare references in the text), we find the world in the hands of 10 World Controllers who administer a global society, bred in test tubes, tranquillised by the mind-numbing drug soma, and graded according to English public school custom (Huxley was an Old Etonian) from alpha plus to epsilon minus.
"There are several classes of cyclist in Detroit: the young guys on the fixies (fixed gear bikes) and the guys who ride the old school custom bicycles, the road riders who are in the large groups, then you have your novices (and commuters) who just want to ride".
As 3D printers become increasingly affordable and available in schools, custom manipulatives will become more scalable.
More importantly, Amplify's tablet suite is a managerial dream: teachers can carefully monitor students behavior, administrators can deploy content across an entire grade-level, and districts can evaluate schools with custom standardized tests.
