Word: scorings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue) and new musicians (Tommy Dorsey, Jack Teagarden), but his staple was rich, smooth orchestration that kept his foot-long baton in motion until 1961, when he retired to his Bucks County home, Coda, so named for the last few bars on a musical score...
...years as the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's chief design engineer, Savage drafted plans for 60 major U.S. dams, yet still was earning less than $10,000 a year when he retired at 65-after which he started a second, more remunerative career as consultant on a score of foreign projects, including Switzerland's Super-Dixence Dam and India's Koyna irrigation project...
...with a book called The Brain Watchers. He calls S.A.T.s "the nail in the coffin of American intellectualism," since their emphasis on "certainty and right answers" makes test-taking ability "the criterion for college performance, and measures it badly." Gross and other critics deplore the pressure on students to score well on the tests. Many schools prep their students on the kind of vocabulary and mathematical skills tested by the exams; high school principals, as well as college publicists, tend to brag about high-average S.A.T. scores as badges of success...
Most U.S. colleges use the S.A.T.s with considerable sophistication and plead with both parents and students not to regard a low score as a guarantee that an application will be rejected. "If we get a boy out of a Harlem slum who scores 490," explains Harvard Admissions Dean Chase Peterson, "we know that compares to the 610 scored by a boy out of Newton." In general, colleges tend to rely much more heavily on high school records, recommendations of teachers and alumni associations, and personal interviews. Schools are far more interested in such traits as motivation, curiosity, self-discipline...
Sheehy's first came at 1:37 of the opening period, but the Crimson bounced back for a 2-1 lead before sheehy tied the score with two seconds to play in the first period...