Word: englished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...encouraging to the Gluecks to find that although the SPT was compiled on the basis of underprivileged Boston boys largely of English, Italian, and Irish descent and of Protestant and Catholic religions, it operated so well on a sample of New York Jewish boys...
...quality of education, Newton High School established with the GSE during 1958-59 a project known as "contract correcting." This program will determine whether or not it is feasible to have qualified persons, such as housewives with college degrees, work from eight to ten hours a week correcting English themes...
Under present circumstances a typical English teacher in a public high school is likely to have five classes a day with more than thirty students per class. Thus, the assignment of as little as one piece of writing a week demands much time from the teacher--time which could be spent planning lessons and working with individual students...
Just five events earlier, American prospects had looked bleak indeed. Taylor's two sprint victories and a surprise triumph by Cambridge's Jim Parker in the high hurdles had given the English a 6-4 lead. The Americans were faced with the task of taking four of the last five events to avoid defeat...
...British performers were suprisingly inept in the field events. England's two discus men, Arthur Perry and G. R. Northern of Oxford were great hulks of men, but they had trouble coming within 20 feet of the winning toss by Pyle of Yale. On the other hand, the wispy English distance runners ran circles around their larger American opponents. The two-mile was originally planned as a three-mile test, but was shortened out of courtesy to the Americans. Even so, Benjamin, the best American two-miler, was 11 seconds behind Oxford's Gilligan. While the Americans religiously abstained from...