Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week she knew that Anthropology was making a fuss about her solitary survival, that Dr. Alexander Lesser, financed by the Committee on Research in Native American Languages, was transcribing & translating Kitsai history as she had dictated it to him the past two summers. He is also preparing a Kitsai grammar to preserve the tongue. Last week he sent her a telegram, inquiring for her health, telling her he would be back soon...
...hearing in the stuffy little Commons Pleas Courtroom at Bridgeton, N. J. went hundreds of curious folk, mostly parents. Citizen Smart, a Canadian Army veteran, put on his uniform and four medals. Mrs. Smart testified she had been graduated from a New York grammar school, had had one year in high school. Her children, she said, were learning reading, writing, arithmetic, "moral ethics, character building and allied subjects." Then small Arthur Smart read a fairy tale. Elizabeth Smart did sums...
...English drama, a man should have read in the original Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca, and to appreciate to the full his English satire he should know Horace, Ovid, and Persius. If, because of the ill-adjustment of the curricula of secondary schools, men cannot get their grounding in grammar of Classical languages there, and if because of pressing requirements of concentration and distribution, men cannot begin this elementary study in college, the alternative is to read the classics in English...
...writes his tunes on old scores or he may scuff on a piece of paper until it looks properly seasoned. He is quiet, courteous, scholarly. He lives in Bronxville, N. Y. where for him the event of last week was his 13-year-old daughter's graduation from grammar school...
Entirely typical is Ohio State's sprinter Donald Bennett, 22, a red-headed sophomore who took up running in grammar school to cure lung trouble. Policemen saw him running in a Toledo park and chipped in to buy him his first track shoes. He is a "straight" runner (carries himself erect). Last week he ran the 220-yd. dash in 20.5 sec., beating R. A. Locke's 1926 world record of 20.6 sec. He ran the 100-yd. dash in 9.5 sec., tying the world record set by Negro Edward Tolan in 1929 and equalled since by Frank...