Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does not feel that anyone has influenced him musically. He hates swing, and so does Hart: "It's old stuff. Benny Goodman only does better what Ted Lewis did years ago." Both Rodgers & Hart hate having swing bands play their stuff-Hart because the subtlety, and even the grammar, of his lyrics is apt to be outraged; Rodgers because his melodies get buried...
Later U. S. school readers and grammars became more prosaic, duller. Recently schoolbook readability has been on the upswing. Last week many a delighted moppet began the fall term with a quaint new grammar, full, like The New England Primer, of verses, pictures and homely illustrations. Unlike the Primer, however, A Living Grammer* takes for its theme not piety...
...faith in democracy, left the gang in sad disgust. What most amazed Stoyan was that a gang of Balkan peasants could lay a track good enough to carry the Northern Pacific's Fast Mail. In his bunk-car he got together a library consisting of a grammar and an unabridged Webster, in three snowbound winters practically memorized them...
...shades of meaning. In 1921, as a test, the Paris Chamber of Commerce had two Esperantists translate delicate texts of French into Esperanto, then had two others turn them back into French; the final texts were almost identical with the originals. The language has only 16 simple rules of grammar, to which there are no exceptions. Its huge vocabulary is compounded from roots common to many languages. For instance, from the root pres (to print) are derived presajho (a piece of printed matter), represi (to reprint), presejo (a printing establishment), presigi (to have printed), presisto (a printer), presilo (a printing...
...have attained a grade of A or B in German A may enter the latter, which is the one ordinarily taken after passing the cp3 entrance examination. Although Lieder's lectures tend to be uninspiring, the fact that E is exclusively a reading course, while C entails considerable grammar and composition, attracts many students to the former. Mr. Hawkes has made an excellent course out of German D, taking much personal interest in the students. It is much the best one in which to learn to speak the language. German F, an "Introduction...