Word: size
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Besides increasing in size, the present group of applicants has shown a corresponding gain in mental prowess. The median score of candidates on the mathematical part of the Scholastic Aptitude Test was 655--a gain of 20 points over the record high of the Class of '62. The median on the verbal section rose from...
...moment, ETS is perfectly capable of absorbing the loss with profits from its regular College Boards, but as the Advanced Placement program grows in size, such support will become financially impossible. The money must come from some other source; either students or schools or colleges must take over the economic burden...
Natural Synthetic Rubber. U.S. Rubber Co. and Shell Chemical Corp. jointly began commercial production of polyisoprene, a man-made rubber duplicating tree-grown rubber. Intended for duty in large-size tires where ordinary synthetic rubber breaks down, the new rubber also will be used in white sidewall tires, crepe-rubber shoe soles and surgical gloves...
...critic who makes judging a matter of principle-who keeps criticizing instead of trying to understand-is rather like a man with a cane, alone in a garden, decapitating weeds and flowers alike. Anything that has size or mystery about it stands in danger...
...intimation of immortality, answers Eliot, echoing thinkers from Goethe to Carlyle and Nietzsche. "Was not Homer a greater hero than Hector?" he asks. "He was a hero born not to slaughter other heroes but to create them, and to give them immortality. His created heroes show the astonishing size of what a man may feel and do. Thus they create new heroes in life...