Word: scores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...change, admissions officials explain, is the result of better applicants. The median SAT score has increased from 560 to 654 over the ten-year period. Now only about 100 applicants are rejected annually for fear they cannot handle the work...
...nation's 7,100,000 college students prepare to return to classes, the question is not whether there will be calm on the campuses but whether the continuing protest wave can be kept below tidal proportions. TIME interviews at a score of institutions last week indicated that many university administrators expect renewed unrest, but they hope that defensive tactics developed from the cruel experiences of recent years, plus concessions to legitimate student demands, will prevent violence and the disruption of entire universities. At Dartmouth, Dean Carroll Brewster was discussing prospects for the fall when a loud noise outside...
...variant of ailurophile, meaning lover of cats). Ofttimes the department is called upon to settle arguments-last year two college roommates quibbled about who makes more money, pro footballers or auto racers (the top stars are about even-in the six-figure range). Both lawyers-and prisoners-by the score request citations of cases referred to in TIME'S Law section, and Medicine brings a flood of requests for further information on stories. Most new products we mention bring requests for further information; the current favorite is the all-terrain vehicle described in Sport last month...
That day has come. The Mets started this season in typical fashion. They lost their first game?as they have lost every opening-day game they have ever played?to the league's new expansion team, the Montreal Expos, by the exasperating score of 11-10. By late May, they had lost five more games than they had won. Then, suddenly, they caught fire. They won eleven in a row, the longest winning streak in their history. They slumped briefly in midsummer, but they have since rallied to win twelve of 13 games. As the season turns the Labor...
Other teams, many baseball officials, even some of his own players, hated him. He once threw a baseball at an umpire; playing third base, he did not scruple to hold the belt of an opposing runner tagging up to score after a fly. But his awesome command of baseball strategy led the Giants to ten National League pennants and three world championships...