Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...educational conventions, not to mention conventional educators. Then, as now, he found no use for grades: "What do they measure? The ability of some children to bone up for examinations." Given the power, he would abolish all marks in favor of general ratings (honors, pass, fair) arrived at by essay questions and oral examinations...
...Minneapolis. Then her mother and father die, victims of the flu epidemic of 1918, leaving the heroine and three younger brothers orphaned into the harsh care of an aunt and uncle: "If I was beaten with a razor-strop for having won a prize in a city-wide essay contest, I had no need to ask myself why . . . it was to keep me from getting stuck up -- logical, given our position. And it was easy to find the cause of that; it was simply that our parents had died...
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...campaign is coalescing, auguring the start of another cycle in U. S. history. Candidates talk of moving Government away from conservatism toward activism. Will the new epoch herald a return to a spirit of engagement? TIME' s Lance Morrow examines Reagan' s legacy and ponders the future. See ESSAY...
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