Word: alphabet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russell's theorles were distimently opposed to the conscription of soldiers and his class sided with him. The class would accompany him to the police station every day to see the latest one of their number to be arrested. "The authorities started at A and worked down the alphabet, taking a man each day," said Mr. Russell, "until I had no class last...
Professor Perry's contribution to the mechanics of the experiment is his system of marking. On this test he will not use the old alphabet method of scoring, but will grade only with an "S+", "S" and "S--", standing for above average, average, and below average...
...every level of behavior, the psychological, the sensory-motor and the higher psychical, he is acquiring both healthful and unhealthful habits of activity. Though he may not learn to read in the pre-school years, he is mastering the alphabet of life. So potent are these fundamental lessons that this period easily becomes the soil of perversion, inefficiency and distorted or curtailed development. Psychoanalysis reveals significant instances in which the unfortunate experiences in the first years of life were competent to produce developmental disharmonies resulting in abnormal adult behavior...
...great, super-developed hoax, and from then on, the utmost concentration is required to follow the writer's logic at all. The first essay consists of a most elaborate and painstaking demonstration of the theory that all modern and ancient languages have grown out of one fundamental languages and alphabet, whose very sounds not only symbolized the concrete, but "suggested the soul of thought which is beyond expression". This alphabet, Mr. Ennis holds, was "systematically and deliberately constructed to embody funds of Knowledge", so that "every letter had a hidden meaning, and words in current use today retain the meaning...
Because of the number who are going to take the examination testing a reading knowledge of French this afternoon at 5 o'clock, men, according to their place in the alphabet, have been assigned to certain rooms as follows...