Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country's "decay of virtue, public and private" around the time he nearly blew himself up making powder for the Continental Army. To head off decay, the 26-year-old Phillips got his father and uncle to give cash for a school to teach boys "English and Latin Grammar, Writing, Arithmetic, and those Sciences wherein they are commonly taught, but more especially to learn them the great end and real business of living...
...second Phillips in his own town of Exeter, N.H. Andover was soon awash with Lees of Virginia, New England Quincys, Lowells, Longfellows. Samuel F. B. Morse arrived at eight and ran away. Many a poor farm boy walked 50 miles carrying his suitcase and a headful of Greek grammar to enter the best school around...
...Water), she writes with power and makes the dismal fumblings of her creatures seem touching, compels the reader finally to accept as looming mountains the emotional molehills that are the topography of starved lives. Toby sustains a whole lifetime upon one moment of triumph: the time when his grammar school teacher read his paper on "The Lost Tribe" to the class. Awakened by the kiss, Zoe's womanly urge to create something, anything, is fulfilled just once-when she twists some tinfoil into the semblance of a sculptured forest scene and is admired for it. "The communication...
...your issue of Saturday, October 6, the statement is made concerning the Ga language that the last study of it "was made in 1858." Actually, a grammar of Ga with notes and exercises was published at Oxford in 1930, the author being M. B. Wilkie. Joshua Whatmough, Chairman of the Department of Lingulstics...
...return, Flanagan got 5,000,000 cards packed with one billion bits of information, which is now being organized and analyzed by Pitt's computers. Among preliminary discoveries: >English teaching is slipshod: only one out of 100 kids produced a five-minute theme without mistakes in grammar, spelling or usage...