Word: size
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Office has assigned you, to Emerson 105 ( or the Geological Lecture Hall ), thus enabling you to admit every student who came on Monday and then some. It is common form, at this second meeting, to express contempt for the building's impersonal architecture and the room's awesome size. No explanation is required for the decision to accept all your applicants, save to say you found choosing among them impossible...
...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...
...Cyrenaica in eastern Libya and stronghold of King Idris and his Senussi sect. The continuation of the curfew suggested that the rebels might be encountering opposition, possibly from the more than 6,000-man British-trained Cyrenaican militia or the national police force, which is almost twice the size of the 10,000-man Libyan army. Radio Tripoli was heard urging rebel troops to seize the "police helicopters" and to "be ready to counter any internal and external acts against the republic...
...surface of his book like croutons in a steaming onion soup. The word bourgeois first appeared (as burgensis) in a 1007 charter establishing the free city of Loches. As a result of Versailles banquets, Louis XIV's stomach was found at his death to be twice normal size. The French Foreign Ministry spends $4,000,000 annually in secret funds, allegedly on payoffs. President Georges Pompidou pays rent on his He Saint-Louis apartment to the Rothschilds, who bought it for him when he lacked the cash. Sometimes a colorful morsel proves slippery-those famous chestnuts that, according...