Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...memory exercise, but as exposure, however tentative or potential, to another culture. Even a score of 800 on the college boards would not indicate this. The exam still does not include a listening-comprehension or speaking section. It tests only the basic vocabulary and rules of grammar, the kind of knowledge which, for Harvard's presently required 560, can be picked up in a year or two and forgotten even faster...
...Boston, buses are carrying 220 Negro children of all grades from the Roxbury and Dorchester sections into 27 schools in seven suburbs. Starting a two-year experiment in bussing, Hartford, Conn., is sending 265 grammar-school pupils from its Negro neighborhoods into fivesuburban schools...
...permit him to collect his unemployment checks from a previous job. During the interview with Works Manager Price (Dana Elcar) he exudes balmy assurance, balmy panic and total inertia: "I'm satisfactory all right. Always been satisfactory. All my school reports: satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory. I went to the Grammar School, you know. I did Latin. Satis meaning enough, factory meaning works: Satisfactory. Had enough of work...
...disappointing book. They do provide some useful information, such as the distinction between dock and pier (a boat floats in a dock, but is tied to a pier). Yet such pointers are overwhelmed by humorless pedagogy, prolixity, questionable advice, and an embarrassing number of sins against good usage and grammar...
...decades ago, all David Sarnoff had was the future. Up from steerage, out of grammar school and supporting an immigrant family of six at 15, Sarnoff learned early to run hard. By 17, he had taught himself Morse code and snared a job pounding a telegraph key for the American Marconi Co. He first tasted fame on a night the world would remember-April 14, 1912. Sarnoff picked up a message from the British steamship Titanic. "Hit an iceberg," it read. "Sinking fast." For 72 hours, he stayed at the key, guiding rescue ships and relaying names of survivors. Thereafter...