Word: intervallic
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Five-Ring Circus. The training routine has both the exhausting overtones of a six-day bike race and the bewildering versatility of a five-ring circus. The day starts with 6 a.m. reveille. At 8, the candidates for the team put in more than an hour of riding, sharing six...
The split-second technicians have taken over an old slang word to describe their work. In the language of the laboratory, a shake is now a precise interval, meaning one hundred-millionth of a second.
What should the teacher try to do about it? I suggest that there is what might be called an "art of decision"--an act of commitment following an interval of non-commitment. The teacher should help his student to learn this art. First, he should practice it himself. The teacher...
What should the teacher try to do about it? I suggest that there is what might be called an "art of decision"--an act of commitment following an interval of non-commitment. The teacher should help his student to learn this art. First, he should practice it himself. The teacher...
If a man complains of a headache every Monday morning, it may just be hangover. If he gets fever or a bellyache every Wednesday, or at some other regular interval, he may be suffering from "periodic disease," an ailment which has doctors thoroughly baffled.