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Word: gerundives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is no excuse for not offering Latin. ... I wouldn't know a gerund from a syntax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Guinea Pigs' Verdict | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...They formed a Criminal Club, a Housebreakers' Union, presented in Chapel a solid mass of shaved pates. Dink Stover, later to win fame at Yale, carried his whole Latin class by signalling with a pair of mobile ears whenever The Roman, their teacher, asked his favorite question, "Gerund or gerundive?" One day The Roman changed his question to "Pick out the first gerund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At Lawrenceville | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

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