Word: formats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Adams House junior who attended last Thursday's lunchtime review session said yesterday, "If you knew the format, you could figure out 50 per cent of the exam beforehand...
Robert J. Kiely, master of Adams House and professor of English, revealed to a small portion of his class on the contemporary novel the content of two questions and the specific format for last Friday's final examination in the course...
Both Cross and an Adams House senior said that Kiely had asked them to convey what he had said about the exam format to other people...
...editors decided that an alphabetical collection of unrelated articles -the traditional Britannica format since the first edition in 1771-was no longer adequate in an era of explosive growth in human knowledge. What was needed was a completely new design that would permit continual additions and changes, and at the same time satisfy more effectively the three separate needs of Britannica users: 1) to get at the facts, or a single fact, quickly and easily; 2) to discover the meaning of the facts; and 3) to review entire fields of learning...
Newsday is easily the nation's best suburban newspaper. Only 33 years old, it has grown up and prospered with Long Island. Its tabloid format is an innovative blend of newspaper and newsmagazine. The contents conform: heavy on interpretive reporting and features, light on spot or breaking news stories that commuting readers have already seen in the Manhattan press or heard on their car radios. Newsday combines solid local coverage with ambitious national and international undertakings. It invested a year of reporting, for instance, to produce a sophisticated 13-part feature called "The Real Suburbia." (Among its findings: suburban...