Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chadwick, Ventris began experimenting. He counted the frequencies of various signs, tried to determine how often they might appear at the beginning, the middle, or the end of words. Then he began to investigate the various changes in word endings, found that they seemed to follow certain rules of grammar much like those of Greek. Finally, he began coupling various Greek syllable sounds with likely signs on the tablets. To one word, for instance, he assigned the Greek sounds KO-NO-SO (Knossos), and to another word with the same beginning, he assigned KO-WO, or kor-wos, classical Greek...
Martin and Gaston is an animated cartoon in color, drawn and written by children, aged 8 to 10. in a French grammar school. It tells the story of two little boys who take an ocean voyage, are shipwrecked on an island, live there like Robinson Crusoe, are attacked by cannibals, rescued by the French navy and taken back to France, where they get "a parade, and many medals and money...
...real downfall in S. W. Thompson's The Alcohol, and Eugene Higgins' excerpt from The Sons of Darkness. Thompson makes a stab at slipping a little social commentary into a picture of lower-class life, but defeats his own attempt at realism by a ludicrous overuse of profanity, bad grammar, and irrelevant detail. Higgins' story has little to recommend it. It is juvenile in its forced attention to detail and never really reaches the reader...
...Statistic of the week: after 39 years of teaching, Mrs. Margie Aust of Scooba (Miss.) Grammar School figured she had pulled exactly 1,533 second-graders' teeth...
...would emerge from his dingy room, make a tour of lectures at the Sorbonne, the Collège de France, the Observatory, and then, after 6, retire to the library to study some more. After a stint of teaching, he began writing textbooks on Latin, Greek, and French grammar, finally hit upon the idea of a dictionary-encyclopedia. Crouched behind his desk, he worked 16 hours a day, in 1865 issued his first 40-page weekly installment. "Subscribe," said he. "or do not subscribe. Speak of me or do not speak of me. I am ready and am taking...