Coordinate term: makeover

On any given Friday night at the Claremont Colleges, between 15 and 20 Jewish students gather to sing wordless melodies, dive into textual study of Talmud or James Baldwin, or hold workshops on antisemitism.

to operate a machine

The binder cuts the wheat down and bundles it into a sheaf. The sheafs are then stooked into a field to dry. A metal plate on the binder would have originally been made of wood, but the fact that this machine could automatically tie string was at one time state-of-the-art. ¶ “That knotter was a marvel of its time. I mean this is a huge technology jump to be able to have a piece of mechanical machinery that actually tied a knot.”