Word: score
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discouraged by the mechanical failures of its data-spewing wonders, ETS has devised a new pasttime for score-searching seniors...
...sports events as "Battle of the NFL Cheerleaders," "Battle of the Network Superstars," and "Battle of the Soap Opera Idols," ETS has introducted its own barely-athletic competition. Taking the best elements of "Name That Tune," "The Price is Right," and "Password Plus," ETS is now playing "Guess Your Score," a rigorous psychic battle pitting student against testing service official...
Just this week, a senior from Eliot House who had entered the "Guess Your Score" competition spoke of her harrowing experience...
Rumor has it that the ETS originally considered developing a code by which students could call up, give a password and then be told their score, obscured in a mystical series of numbers and/or letters. But that idea was rejected as too technical...
...lady said she couldn't do that, either. However, she said if I guessed a number, she could tell me if my score was higher or lower. I couldn't believe it. I was tempted to ask. 'What happens if I guess the score right on the nose? Do I get six cases of Redi-Whip or something...