Word: penciled
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...Brooklyn-reared Jew, Frank was the manager of an Atlanta pencil factory where a female employee, 13, was raped and strangled to death in 1913. On shaky evidence and over his vehement denials, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Two years later, after his sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment, a gang abducted him from prison and lynched...
DIED. JACK ELAM, 82, accountant turned movie actor who, with a maniacal leer and dead eye (a result of being stuck with a pencil during a boyhood fight) specialized in playing mean hombres in such westerns as High Noon and Once Upon a Time in the West; of congestive heart failure; in Ashland, Ore. Later he showed his comedic skills in the 1969 parody Support Your Local Sheriff...
...this digital age, we have developed an incredible tendency to prefer electronic solutions to tasks which can be accomplished as well, or nearly as well, with a pencil and paper—and we seem oblivious to the diminishing returns of any move toward the digital solutions. Look at all the people using a $500 PalmPilot to do the work of a pad of note paper if you don’t believe me. Online registration, if experience is any judge, would not only not ameliorate the hassles of study card day but make them significantly worse. I had four...
When Harvard’s current undergraduates were born, the idea of a campus connected by lightning-quick Ethernet connections—building multi-media projects and watching lectures on personal computers—was science fiction. But two decades later it has become wasteful for students to use pencil, paper and legwork to register for their courses at the start of the term or to add and drop them later on. Call it laziness, or call it efficiency, but a website on which students could carry out these time-consuming necessities from the comfort of their dorms would work...
...dictate stories into tape recorders and persuade friends to help haul a bulky mattress up a flight of stairs. These unorthodox tasks are designed to measure the creative and practical skills that Sternberg says are crucial to success in college and in life but are ignored by the typical pencil-and-paper exam. If Sternberg succeeds in quantifying these types of intelligence--and linking them to concrete accomplishments--his efforts may change forever the way colleges pick their students...