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Pretest: More Than Just Fun and Games
La de Ourer for an URCC CRCUI 14. aso pudisted the two volume EAT, C/Cult Aviarysis UTA-C Power Systems,
quickly became the main textbook for new engineers.
[6] In 1945, when Edith Clarke retired to her farm in rural Maryland, she thought she would retreat from the discipline that had hele
long. However, when she was offered a professorship at the University of Texas in Austin, she could not refuse and became the firm
engineering at Texas and perhaps in the country. She happily taught for ten years at the university. When she retired for the secon
widely recognized as an authority on electric power systems. While at the University of Texas, Clarke was also a consultant on the
dams in the West. Clarke spent the last few years of her life on her farm in Maryland and passed away October of 1959 at the ag
Texas, she was interviewed about her significant career for the New York Times. The reporter for the piece commented that "she
may help solve today's critical need for technical manpower." The woman who had once been expected to host teas and play pia
that women could answer the twentieth century's need for "technical manpower."
[7] Throughout her career, Clarke was honored by men and women alike. She was the first woman to earn professional standing
nation's largest and oldest electrical engineering fraternity. She also published numerous papers in the AJEE Transactions and G
Through these publications she won two important awards from AIEE (now IEEE): the Best Regional Paper Prize in 1932 and the
Prize in 1941. In addition, she was the first woman elected as a fellow of the AIEE. At the end of her career, she was given an aw
Women Engineers for outstanding contributions to the field, and she was listed in Who's Who in Engineering, American Women,
a person who has interests or attitudes that are similar to one's own
Based on the dictionary definition, what does kindred spirits mean in paragraph 3?
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well-educated people
serious, focused people
odd or unusual people
like-minded people