Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward Hopkins, a London merchant who came to America in 1637, and who was several times governor of the Connecticut colony. He made numerous educational bequests to New England in order "to give some encouragement in those foreign plantations, for the breeding up of hopeful youths, both at the grammar school and college, for the public service of the country in future times...
...faker, who attempts to scale the social heights. She is particularly eager to bring about the marriage of her sister to wealth and position but is unable to devote her entire time to this object because of the necessity of spending some of it correcting her mother's grammar. Mrs. Fiske returns to her old role with all the vivacity of a young and eager actress and does not hesitate to make use of the broad clowning and reversible inflections that were considered high technique in 1911. Her performance is glowingly amusing. In addition there is a brilliant...
...reason for this is not difficult to see. At the start, the runner, messenger, or Junior clerk is doing work that requires no more intelligence than a bright boy just out of grammar school and his services are worth no more than the same bright boy. While he is performing these lowly tasks, however, he is getting the "feel" of the business, which is most essential. He is learning not only what investment banking is all about, but he is learning the way in which it ties into other industries; not only the difference between a stock and a bond...
...Ford '94, Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages, receives grants for several projects, including the compiling of a bibliography of Spanish-American and Portuguese-American literature. He is enabled to secure photostats used in a grammar of Early French, clerical assistance in the study of Don Quixote, and aid in the publication of letters of John III of Portugal...
...Pedants, hairsplitting, accused Dr. Wilson of faulty grammar."He" should not be used after "one" "he or she" belongs to the "everyone will remove his or her hat" school of speech, and "offspring" serves for ten children as well as for one child, said they...