Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experiment at Middletown High School, near Newport, R.I., is just beginning its second year. Anywhere else. Middletown's 1,271 youngsters, mostly children of employees and servicemen of the nearby naval base, would be labeled seventh-to twelfth-graders. But Middletown has banished grades as well as failure and promotion. Instead, subjects are broken into small-step "concepts'' to be mastered over a six-year period. A student may plod in math while simultaneously flying ahead in English. For dullards, it may take seven years to get a diploma. Whippets can finish in five years. Sidney...
...view of the risks they take, factors lose remarkably little through bad debts: their loss rate is only about one-twelfth of 1% on volume-a rate that compares favorably with the losses sustained by banks. Competition holds down factors' charges to around 1% to 2% of the value of the accounts they factor. For higher earnings, factors look to increased volume. Their fondest hope is that President Kennedy's new trade expansion bill will spur new interest in European sales among small and medium-sized U.S. companies. Already factors are planning overseas operations to handle accounts...
...month to fix a pair of hose. Square-fingered Soviet gloves, complained Izvestia, "make even the most graceful hand look like a paw." Hair rinses, shampoos and large curlers are hard to find; one reporter in Moscow waited more than four hours for a hair dresser, still was twelfth in line when the shop was ready to close. Concluded Izvestia: "If you want to look beautiful, you must suffer...
...Wagnerian game with the University of Texas (U.T. has won 44 times since 1894, against 17 for A. & M.). Moreover, every single Aggie stands throughout every single football game-ignoring even passing tornadoes-to signify his eagerness to take to the field if necessary as the team's "twelfth...
Solution: Having fed all this into a high-speed IBM 7090 computer at M.I.T., Mosteller and Wallace report that Madison wrote eleven of the disputed Papers; odds are 80 t011, they say, that he also wrote the twelfth. New score card: 26 Papers for Madison, 43 for Hamilton (they co-authored three; John Jay wrote five). All of which took three years to prove, and may be quite satisfactory to an IBM 7O90,-but will still leave any professional writer with a nagging question: What if Hamilton really wrote the papers and Madison later edited them, dourly scratching out upon...