Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prevent students from changing answers, then submitting exams for regrading, Gelbart says his graders refuse to regrade exams that were taken in pencil...
Jeffrey got out a stub of a pencil and made a correction on the pledge card. "That makes eight," he said...
...years, Harvard students, professors, administrators and staff have been forced to look upon a sorry shadow of what could be, leaving the tower only in their imaginations--and in their line drawings of the hall with tower, as Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles is apt to pencil off in a free moment...
...that of diseased individuals. In 41 nuns who did not have Alzheimer's-like brains, researchers found, strokes caused no measurable decrease in overall mental competence. But in nuns with Alzheimer's, just one or two strokes--small strokes that left swirls of dead tissue no bigger than a pencil tip--were enough to trigger a precipitous decline. "One brain disease is bad enough," Snowdon observes. "But when you add a second disease to it, you're in real trouble...
...that time of year again. You sit hunched over a sheet of paper with a pencil in your sweaty palms. You agonize over each game. All of a sudden, you realize that you really care about Butler and Coppin State...