Word: third
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This article is designed to explain how to achieve the third answer to this perplexing problem by the use of the vague generality, the artful equivocation, and the overpowering assumption...
There is a third method of dealing with examination questions--that is, by the use of the overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it is pretty obvious that the vague generality is the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact, it isn't obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarrented assumption...
...Back to college. The 1971 UNC Tarheels finished third in the NCAA tournament when they lost by four points to an unheralded Florida State contingent. North Carolina started Bob McAdoo at center, Dennis Wycick and Bobby Jones at the forwards, and George Karl and WHO at the guards? (Hint: He played one year in the ABA, quite possibly the least talented backcourter ever to make the pros...
...third grade at P.S. 166, that august institute of lower education on West 89th St. where I majored in messing up my desk, I learned several things. The first thing I learned was that love is cruel. This insight came when Miss Witzman, homeroom teacher and object of my lust, announced her intention to marry at year's end. Marry someone other than me, that is. I learned the second thing when fractions wormed their incomprehensible way into my arithmetic textbook. Math...
...Third Period: Harvard--Mike Watson (George Hughes) 10:33; St. Lawrence--Popiel (Gary Laskowski) 14:54; Harvard--George Hughes (David Burke, Scott Powers...