Word: algebraically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FRANCIS SCOTT KEY FITZGERALD was named after his ancestor, the Baltimore attorney who wrote the words to the "Star Spangled Banner." F. Scott was born in St. Paul, Minn., 40 years ago. At Princeton he spent his first year writing a Triangle show, therefore flunked algebra, trig, and associated studies. The show was a hit. By tutoring during the summer, he successfully got back to Princeton the next year, and played a chorus girl in his show...
...read handwriting. They teach me and they teach me but I don't understand." "He has a special teacher to instruct him in the Russian language and simple arithmetic," explained Discoverer Petrov, adding with a laugh. "If he uses the 'Stakhanov Method,' he will be in algebra by the middle...
...spent that money . . . a six years' subscription to the New York Weekly Tribune with a premium of Webster's unabridged dictionary." Upon his father's death, he went to work in a machine shop, spent long hours reading, studied German, taught his shopmates algebra. In addition, he took a correspondence course in shorthand. At 21 he became city editor of the Aurora (Ill.) Evening Post. A few years later found him in Chicago, working for a firm of investment counselors, editing the financial section of the Chicago Tribune. With the failure of Moore Brothers...
...Gerling's insistence on economy has had one less happy result this autumn. Finding that pupils who fail of promotion were costing the city $300,000, he ordered the tempo of teaching slowed down. Primary pupils will have less reading: algebra will be taught later in high school; Latin will be spoon...
Identical tests were given to students who had been educated in each way. Sixteen high-school subjects were tested, and in only two subjects was the old method of teaching as successful as the now. The scores for the two methods were even in American History, and in intermediate Algebra the old school surpassed greatly. But in all the Sciences, in composition and literature, in all the languages, including Latin, and in all the Mathematics but intermediate Algebra, there was a large percentage difference in favor of progressively taught pupils...