Word: linearized
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Carl B. Agee, associate professor of experimental petrology, called the current grade point system "silly" and said that it should be amended to make the scale linear...
...math preceptor, Winters spends his days on campus, teaching Mathematics 20: Introduction to Linear Algebra and Multi-variable Calculus this fall...
...realism that, disdaining frills of style and "spiritual" grace notes, tried in all its sharpness (and, occasionally, bluntness) to engage the material world as an end in itself. Later figures in this line would be John James Audubon and Thomas Eakins. But Copley was the first. He took the linear, enumerative style of early American effigy painting and made it peculiarly grand--not through rhetoric, as in the "grand manner," but through the candor of its curiosity. He did not edit out the warts and wens, the pinched New England lips, the sallow skin and (as several portraits show...
...more than the crude outline of a human hand. The Chauvet cave drawings, made 30 centuries earlier, are exquisitely rendered likenesses that use the caverns' natural contours to heighten a sense of perspective. The contrast suggests that the art of early man did not mature steadily in any simple linear fashion. Says Patrice Baghain, a regional director of the French Culture Ministry: "It throws the entire notion of progressive artistic development into question...
...concentrated on issues which haven't been addressed in the literature [surrounding the debate], namely the meaning of 'genetic," said Bruce L. Gottlieb '97, who is a Crimson editor. "He also made an attempt to take account of interaction between genetic and environmental factors which may not be strictly linear...