Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For most of you the next four years will be marked by a profound lack of interest in the administration. But sometime or another you may have a gripe with the University. Whether the problem be an unjustified tuition raise or a simple room change, if it involves bending the...
A group of maybe seven faculty and administrators will meet to consider every case in a region, trying to come in "on target." For the first time, the folders are marked "admit" or "reject" and a picture of the class begins to emerge.
Works by other writers in the past few months have reflected this fascination with language, but have delved deeper into the mysterious origins of words. In After Babel, Critic George Sterner uses the problems of translation to discuss the diversity human tongues and the linguistic theories that account for them...
In the three days that the cosmic-ray detector hung 130,000 ft. over Sioux City, Iowa, it marked the passage of 75 heavy atomic particles hurtling in from outer space. One of the particles was distinctly different from the others. Its telltale track through a sandwich of three dozen...
Some other surveys point to a similar, though much less dramatic bottoming-out of the profits decline. Working from such data as sales volume and the percentage of industrial capacity in use, rather than from a sampling of corporation reports to stockholders, Data Resources Inc.'s president Otto Eckstein...