Word: cubes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...thought he had the answer. After testing 583 Oxford students, he had found some striking differences between athletes and nonathletes, and between athletes in different events, had reduced his findings to a mathematical formula. The formula: using the metric system, divide a man's height by the cube root of his weight; multiply the result by the diameter of his heart (measured by X ray), and multiply again by his leg length. Middle and long-distance runners ought to score over 15,500; sprinters ought to score less. The highest man scored 18,869. "I predict," announced the doctor...
...most questions asked on such tests are elementary, and some are so mechanical that no preparation is possible, a few hours refresher is "Ratio and Proportion Problems" or "Graph and Chart Analysis" shouldn't hurt the AGCT score of any non-math concentrator. And then there are those exasperating "Cube Counting" and "Cube Turning" problems which some pre-test practice would make slightly less nerve-shattering...
...exception to this cautious policy was 67-year-old Baron Lyle of Westbourne, whose firm of Tate & Lyle is the biggest sugar refinery in Britain (the baron's coat of arms includes interlaced sugar canes surmounted by a defiant rooster). Baron Lyle is the sponsor of the "Mr. Cube" cartoons, which feature an animated lump of sugar with definite opinions against proposals to nationalize Britain's sugar industry (TIME, Dec. 19). The "Mr. Cube" cartoons, he declared frostily, would continue to appear on his sugar packages, at least until the King dissolves Parliament...