Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minute writing ability portion of the test hopes to "measure the student's command of grammar and diction as well as his ability to recognize verbose or unclear writing," the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J., reports. The "test of general background," containing 90 questions, will test "the student's awareness of the intellectual and cultural context in which the law functions...
...Part of the word is like part of the word GRAMMAR. Both come from an old word. 4) The same letter goes in both spaces: PROGRA...
...unreal as his menu. Born in California, he grew up in Oakland, where his parents ran a small grocery. At the age of six, a tuberculosis attack cost him his left leg; despite the handicap, Bergeron was so agile on his crutches that he played for his grammar school soccer team. He quit school at 16, two years later was able to buy his first wooden leg. For the next 13 years he bummed around from job to job, finally winding up at the end of Prohibition as a partner in a neighborhood bar. A year later, the partnership...
...course, and I regret that you did not consider such material to be news-worthy. Who would seriously consider taking a course whose curriculum consists of conversation-provoking ridicule and song fests, and whose instructor naively believes that in a few lessons, without the benefit of rules of grammar, he can promote one to a state in which "it's almost like learning the grammar of your own language." I make no such pretentious claim for my course. You have taken halves of two sentences to construct a statement which does not represent my views. The effect has been rather...
Vellucci is still holding his own. He was born in Somerville, but moved early across the line into Cambridge, where he attended grammar and high schools.... Now, at age 45 with eight kids, he is principal income tax examiner for the Commonwealth, has studied parliamentary law and taxation and is "self-educated...