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Word: algebraical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Junior high was a pain in the ass. They had me doing solid geometry, or algebra, and third-year Latin was not pleasurable. See, I had no father. My father died when I was young so I had no iron discipline as a teenager, and when I became a teenager, my mother became a pushover...

Author: By David A. Demilo and Susan C. Faludi, S | Title: George Carlin's Coming of Age | 7/25/1978 | See Source »

Eckstein said that "Economics is the most analytical of the social sciences and the student body is getting more analytical. Student aren't afraid of graphs or a little algebra...

Author: By Nancy A. Tentindo, | Title: Economics Most Popular Field Among Freshman Concentrators | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...road from Wherever to East Brunswick, valise in hand and afternoon at Princeton slipping rapidly from my grasp. Now, I hadn't paid much attention out of East Brunswick, but it had seemed like about a two minute jaunt to the last stop. Having successfully completed high school algebra, I figured that translated to a 15 minute trot back, in time for the next bus. I should turn in my high school diploma, because when half an hour had passed and no bus station appeared on the horizon I began to revise my estimated time of arrival upwards, once again...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: So Where Did You Go Over Vacation? | 4/5/1978 | See Source »

...them was the 19th century mathematician George Boole, who devised a system of algebra, or mathematical logic, that can reliably determine if a statement is true or false. The other was Alan Turing, who pointed out in the 1930s that, with Boolean algebra, only three logical functions are needed to process these "trues" and "falses";-or, in computer terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Society: Science: The Numbers Game | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...street for too many " Says he: There are things to be learned by those not quite good enough for Algebra 1 but who try and do their best." Civics Teacher Jerry Kotsovos, who is held in awe by students as Marshfield's most demanding teacher, feels that "students aren't being challenged enough. They complain that I make them work, I make them think. But they're glad afterward." He conducts his classes as vigorous discussion groups Margaret Burdg, who has the prim and proper air of an old-fashioned English teacher, team-teaches with History Teacher Connell an English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Schools Under Fire | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

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