Word: linearly
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Andorsky, who is a Crimson editor, says he believes the change in leadership is more of a cyclical pattern than a linear trend...
...REMBRANDT ON THE ROCKS: The discovery of dazzling drawings of rhinoceroses and other animals in a French cave suggests that prehistoric art did not mature in a simple linear fashion but may have been punctuated by the influence of individual geniuses. The images in the Chauvet cave date from 30,000 years ago, 12 to 18 millenniums before comparable ones at Lascaux, in France, and Altamira, in Spain, and much earlier than anyone thought possible for such realistic portraits...
...what if Harvard abolishes its 15-point system altogether and replaces it with a linear scale like the 4.0 system used at many schools...
...option is to eliminate the 15-point scale and replace it with a linear scale such the 4.0 system...
...professors in the sciences, where the grading is more objective, favor a linear scale which would not contain a gap between an A- and B+. "I certainly don't think we need three grades between an A and a B," says James E. Davis, lecturer on chemistry and instructor of Chemistry 5. "I think there should be equal spacing between A- and a B+. And an easy way to make each of them equal is to go by .3 increments...