Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against a background of slowly emerging criticism of the program--some valid, some clearly spurious--that a discussion of growth or curtailment must be undertaken. I would like to as rapidly as possible with a central criticism, one that strikes at the very concept of advanced placement. Overtly it is expressed when an adviser points to a failing grade in a middle-group course and generalizes about a program that presses innocent children into studies for which they are not prepared; when a tutor reports on a sophomore standing student whose performance on general examinations has fallen short...
...sand was shaved cleanly off. But Dixon's FTC found Bates had used Plexiglas instead of sandpaper and that sand was not in fact shaved off the real thing. The FTC then ordered that Colgate and Bates should never again falsely advertise shaving cream or use "spurious mock-ups or demonstrations for any product...
Some droned 30,000 ft. above Eastern population centers on fake bomb runs. Some roared in just 500 ft. above coastal waters. All radiated spurious electronic signals to confuse defense radar. In Colorado Springs, NORAD's commander, General Laurence S. Kuter, 56, sat in front of a giant battle screen in a windowless building, directing the simulated interceptor action that was taking place over 14 million square miles...
...leader of a rival street gang called The Sharks. As in Shakespeare's poem, the star-crossed lovers meet and love and find their fate in the ugly shadow of suspicion that divides their kindred. Unhappily, the literary parallel, though it lends the piece a certain spurious redolence of tradition, proves a pathetic fallacy. Shakespeare's lovers seem silly in the gilded palazzi of romantic old Verona; in the rancid tenements of unremitting megalopolis, West Side Story's lovers seem simply unreal and finally uninteresting...
...intermodulation distortion, is the result of two or more separate tones affecting each other in such a way as to produce a spurious, discordant, frequency. It is minute traces of this type of fault which lead to "listener fatigue," a condition characterized by a desire on the part of the listener to shut the set off, even though he doesn't quite know what is irritating him. In larger doses this is the rasping, grating effect we are used to from the majority of transistor radios, for example...