Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred thousand girl graduates tripped out of Germany's grammar schools last month to complicate Adolf Hitler's nagging problem of German unemployment. Fruit of the first post-War years when Germany's armies came home to their wives, the 14-year-olds had to do something. Last week Chancellor Hitler offered the 600,000 to the housewives of Germany, as housemaids without pay for one year. The wives will teach the maidens how to cook, serve, wash and clean, will feed and bed them and pay their health insurance premiums. Friedrich Syrup, director of the Federal...
...Spanish Grammar, Reading, and Composition...
Spanish 1, designed for students who have had no previous knowledge of the language, is, like all other first year language courses, monotonous. The grammar is not particularly difficult, the reading is done in books which are based on puerile stories, and the composition consists of re-writing these same stories...
...perhaps, a melancholy consideration that the progressive organization which attempted a War Protest meeting on Widener steps yesterday morning has not yet learned that methods which obtain in Union Square fail sadly here. A Washington Square harangue will always be met with a certain derision in the Yard; bad grammar will ever meet tutorial reprimand: "I'm sure the Prince of Wales said 'doesn...
...Biddle edition of the Journals of Lewis and Clark. It is clear that he was acquainted with it because he has quoted passages from it several times although their dignified and flowing style makes the elementary rhetorical devices of Wilson appear to be feeble efforts of a grammar school debater. The reader is apt to find tedious a constant repetition of "and now, by God, he was ready. . . ." "but, by God, he was . . ." and in the same category may well be placed the omnipresent references to the shining eyes and wagging tail of Brewster, the canine mascot of the expedition...