Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...probably existed since the beginning of language. As long as there have been things of which men thought the less said the better, there have been better ways of saying less. In everyday conversation the euphemism is, at worst, a necessary evil; at its best, it is a handy verbal tool to avoid making enemies needlessly, or shocking friends. Language purists and the blunt-spoken may wince when a young woman at a party coyly asks for directions to "the powder room," but to most people this kind of familiar euphemism is probably no more harmful or annoying than...
Contrary to most student belief, there are only three factors in the PRL formula-rank in class, the College Board verbal aptitude test score, and an average of College Board achievement test scores. (One misinformed student swore to the interviewer that there were "about 26" factors in the formula and that one of them was whether the student's parents have been divorced...
...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...
...variables in these three formulae. To find the PRL, the derivatives from the three are weighted in one of two proportions, depending on whether the applicant comes from a public or private school. In the public school formula, the class ranking derivative is 47 per cent of the PRL, verbal aptitude 23 per cent, and the average of achievement scores 30 per cent. For private school graduates it is 48 per cent, 20 per cent, and 32 per cent...
...figures have shown that it takes a high verbal aptitude to be a good scientist at Harvard," Glimp said...