Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...added, however, that present population growths will increase the number of children of school age from 271/2 million to 371/2 million in twelve years. Even now, grammar school teachers are badly needed...
Almost the first student Staley had was a young ward worker named James Michael Curley, later famed as mayor, congressman, governor and convicted con-man.* "He had the harsh Boston voice," recalls Delbert Staley, "and the vocabulary of a fishmonger. But I straightened out his grammar, gave him a vocabulary, and trained his voice." Curley, says Staley proudly, is "the greatest American orator since Daniel Webster...
This collecting of juvenilia could cause a revolution in the arts. We can imagine a concert of those pieces composed by Mozart before he reached the age of three--not his best, of course, only those not previously heard. Or a hanging of sketches done by Pieasse while attending grammar school in Spain. Since some of the pieces in this anthology were written by men who later became well known in fields quite removed from the world of letters (a selection by Theodore Roosevelt concerns various football teams of 1879), it may be possible to uncover some clay figurines sculptured...
...tests to find out whether the protesters knew what they were talking about. Last week the schoolmen admitted that, to a certain extent, the protesters did: in math problems the pupils scored three points below the national average, were little better in spelling; almost all were weak in grammar. Superintendent Kenneth Oberholtzer (TIME, Feb. 20) decided standards needed tightening...
High school and grammar students in Massachusetts pay student commuting fares, but college and university students have always paid the full tariff...