Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slum girl, Consuelo got a good education: grammar school and trade school, where she learned to type. She went to work for a businessman, lost her job when she refused to let him make love to her. Despite her revulsion of sex, Consuelo finally let herself be seduced. "Caray," she says. "So many things have happened to me since then. What can I do to stop punishing myself? Was it bad luck or bad faith that was my undoing. Not a day goes by when I do not have some filthy proposition, nor a powerful reason to accept...
Jones is drawing $4,000 a year (v. the major-league minimum of $7,000), and is already a growing legend in St. Louis, where he began his baseball career as a grammar-school nine-year-old. One day in 1958, while he was playing third base for the Brentwood Cardinals, a suburban St. Louis amateur team, the starting pitcher broke his leg, and the manager sent twelve-year-old Mike to the mound. Jones walked the first batter, struck out the next 18, won the game-and became the team's No. I pitcher. Over the next three...
Jones particularity directed his fire at the examination given all English students at the end of elementary school, usually at the age of 11, which determines who will be permitted to enter a state-run grammar school, and thus have a chance to reach college. The selection system, Jones asserted, sorts out the nation's youth unfairly and undemocratically. He urged the institution of the American "comprehensive" high school as the only long-range solution to the problem of fragmented secondary education...
...Grass Roots Grow. Though Fall River citizens have reason to envy a good education-only 3% are college graduates, and almost 40% never finished grammar school-Fradkin at first doubted that many could spare even $1. The average annual salary in the town, a once flourishing cotton manufacturing center, was $3,000. But in the first year he raised $4,500 to finance 24 scholarships...
Another group has responded to invitations from West Nigeria to teach in grammar schools in the city of Lagos. Independent of the Peace Corps, this program results primarily from a Nigerian recruiting mission which visited the United States last year. Monro estimated that three or four students have definitely decided to participate...