Word: unread
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least I bought everything the Coop had to offer. By the end of my college career, I figure I will have spent more than $2000 on coursebooks, and one thing I will have to show my children for my college education will be the magnificent library built on unread textbooks...
...chances may be reduced by a deceptive, tempting answer that E.T.S. calls a "distractor." A typical distractor in the stickier part of a math section was set up by this question: A literary agency's editors read 4 out of every 20 scripts submitted. What is the ratio of unread to read scripts? The nice, easy-looking distractor, 5:1, is sitting right there for Joe to get burned on, and usually he does. The correct answer, of course, is 4:1. Owen passes on the Review prescription: in a hard portion, beware the easy answer. In an easy portion...
...Reading period allows students to put a semester of lectures, readings, problem sets, labs, and papers in perspective before the final exam asks them to make sense of it all. Reading period is also a last chance to study readings that felt by the wayside and might otherwise go unread. By subverting this valued Harvard institution, professors only limit the possibilities for thoughtful reflection and thorough exam preparation...
...nonfiction, capped by The Outline of History, an almost hysterically optimistic attempt to trace mankind's ascent from darkness to a science-aided summit far from the present day. Like most of Wells' work, it was a monumental bestseller in its own time, and is almost unread today...
...after the President suspended parts of his proposed secrecy order last week your book may still have a chance to go to press unread. "The Presidents has decided to suspend those parts of the directive," an administration spokesman said, "that are controversial and where there has been a lack of understandings by Congress...