Neville recalls his mother rebuking the children with "Have you forgotten that you are a Goddard?", though the family had no background at all, and by that alone making the name important.
Date (happened)
between 1910 and 1920
unresolved
before 1968
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [526814] belong to telling lecture nids [60]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1968 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1968 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 19 July 1968
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1968 to before 1968-07-19.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 60 (certain delivery 1968-07-19); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1968`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1968-07-19 on nid 60 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
before 1965
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [532987] belong to telling lecture nids [1204]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1965 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1965 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 11 May 1965
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1965 to before 1965-05-11.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1204 (certain delivery 1965-05-11); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1965`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1965-05-11 on nid 1204 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
between 1910 and 1920
estimated · possible
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 010)
Reasoning
Passages 526814 and 532987: his mother said it to the children when they misbehaved. He grew up in Barbados until Sept 1922; comparable childhood events (15229) are c.1910-1920. It was a habit, so only the span is given.
Sources
Source
- Live End July 19 Marines Memorial Club San Francisco ¶27 (But Mother instilled in us, when we did something of which she was ashamed she would say to us, “Have you forgotten that you are a Goddard?” Well, we didn’t know. That must have been very important, because Mother said, “Have you forgotten that you’re a …)
- The Art of Imagining ¶19 (In fact, my mother would say to any one of us who did something unbecoming what she thought a child of hers should do, and she would say to us, “Have you forgotten that you are a Goddard?”)