Word: rank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cartographer R. M. Chapin Jr. and his staff was to get it all on a two-page map and still make it clearly readable. The rather large aim was to differentiate among natural-gas, crude-oil and product pipelines, to show oilfield areas and natural-gas fields, and to rank refinery areas by size. Besides high cartographic skill, all this called for a special printing process. For the U.S. editions, the map was printed in eight colors-yellow, magenta, green, grey, gold, pink, blue and black. To get sharper differentiation between the lines and patterns, it was printed...
...formula is empirically derived from the actual rank list standing of Harvard students and is revised whenever a significant error shows up--about once every three years...
...information from actual standings is translated by computers into curves representing the relative advantage for performance at Harvard of the whole range of verbal aptitude and achievement scores. Several curves of like derivation are drawn for rank in class to take care of the wide variance in the size of high school classes...
...College official would reveal any information about the actual structure of the three curves, but Glimp disclosed that "it's better to rank first in a small class than a little way down in a larger one. Apparently being first in one's class--no matter what the size--indicates some quality that enables a student to do well at Harvard...
Glimp explained that math aptitude shows up significantly in achievement scores and in rank in class. Hence the mathematical capabilities of the Harvard applicant are indirectly included in the PRL formula...