Word: verbalization
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...that Connolly got out of his verbal battle with the umpires was a quick repair job of the entire fence by an agreeable Harvard squad and coach Loyal Park (who's probably agree to anything at that point as long as they kept the two runs on the scoreboard...
...numbers so much that they cannot evaluate some of the most important works of our time. Part of the problem may be that, at this school, anything mathematical smacks too much of the dreaded pre-med courses. Worse, "thoughtful" courses in the social sciences often cover the feeblest exclusively verbal epigones of Mars but not far more important works by thinkers like Paul Baran, who are articulate both with words and numbers. Too often, students are taught that they should think thoroughly before looking at facts...
...treat minority applications in exactly the way one from a highly competitive school is treated; the kinds of statistics are different. "A candidate can come out of DeWitt Clinton, a tough school in the Bronx, New York, and be first in his class and have a 290 verbal," one admissions officer said, "so rank in class generally doesn't tell you anything out of ghetto schools...
...interviewer gave him a strong recommendation--except he "wished he was a little quicker mentally." Described as "not a scholar" and with low verbal board scores, the committee finally decided, after considerable haggling, to send a special letter of rejection. "Everyone on the committee thought he was a terrific kid. But we had doubts if could do the work here and still be active athletically...
...adorned in a white gown, black sunglasses and a regal red sash. Unlike The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin (TIME, Dec. 31, 1973), which lasted twelve hours and centered on painterly images evolving in glacially slow motion and almost total silence, Queen Victoria consists mainly of verbal anarchy. In a typical scene, characters shoutingly reiterate the following word-sounds contrapuntally: "HAP-HATH-HAP-HAP-HATH - O.K., O.K., A-O-K, O.K., O.K. - SKY-SKY." This sort of thing is punctuated by screams of primal therapy...