Word: crypticness
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...been failing as this yardstick, however. They are the bluebooks that the student finds with a single big letter grade serawled on their cover, and no other comment. No exam really helps the student to learn unless he knows what he did wrong; a grade and a line of cryptic figures written on the inside cover are not constructive criticism. Despite their tremendous pressure for time, graders should comment on exams--telling students what they have done wrong and how they can tackle their errors. Coupled with expanded office hours and discussion in sections,--History 61 holds fine "bitch sessions...
...weeks ago, an autograph-hunting youngster asked George Preston Marshall : "Are you the coach?" Owner Marshall, whose Washington Redskins (once top-rankers in the National Professional Foot ball League) had just taken a 49-10-14 drubbing from the Philadelphia Eagles, brushed the kid .off with two cryptic words: "Not today." It was quite an admission for the volatile, self-styled genius who sometimes hired coaches to run his team, supercoaches to run the coaches-and then ran the whole thing himself...
...furnishings− a Tahitian drum, Congo ceremonial sword, Chinese helmet, Moroccan fly-switch, Senegalese war hatchet and grotesque Zulu masks. Loewy, who gets some of his best ideas in bed (and no nightmares from the masks), reached for the ever-present memo pad beside his pillow and scribbled a cryptic note: Why not a suction cap for shaving-cream tubes...
...then did Uncle Branch sell Jethroe, an acknowledged swiftie, a solid line drive hitter, and the possessor of an excellent throwing arm? For one thing, there was the price. A cryptic paragraph in the New York Times stated that the Addis-Jethroe deal provided enough revenue for Ricky to be able to write off the losses of last fall's unfortunate venture into the All-America football conference. The loss on the football Dodgers in 1948 has been conservatively estimated at $300,000. And Rickey got six minor leaguers to boot (whose names will be given on October...
...Record's stories is longwindedness. The authors take so many columns to get to the point that only their editors, roommates, fiancees and perhaps an occasional reviewer ever reach the end, or even the middle. On top of that, the clusive "point" frequently remains invisible right up to the cryptic signature...