Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keep the child at home, apprentice him, tutor him or her-or send him off to school. The schools were not, by and large, free. Nor were they compulsory in the sense that every child in a certain area had to attend them. Some fortunate boys were educated in grammar schools with college in mind: they studied the Bible, Erasmus, Aesop, Ovid, Cicero, Vergil, Homer, Hesiod; Latin and Greek. Above all, there was what might be called a strongly moral education. Such an education for the colonists was by definition religious-God's will made known to the child...
...from 21 years of experience with New England winters I can guarantee that yesterday was meteorological aberration of the first order. When I was a little kid going to grammar school near here, I could depend on at least a half-dozen days every winter when the snow was too intense to even think about taking in the mail, never mind tunneling over to school...
Just show him where his grammar errs...
...Kline, with a few exceptions--such as when they excuse an outlandish lie Adams makes to his wife as "an exaggeration made under momentary stress"--edit and introduce the 226 letters with good sense, restoring the parts that Charles Francis Adams bowdlerized in the 19th century, and leaving the grammar and spelling of the originals uncorrected...
Sheed appears to be unnerved by his own failure, to the extent that even his grammar comes apart. He writes that Ali "learned ... to move side to side from Louis Rodriguez and to lay on the ropes from Sugar Ray ..." "Lay" for "lie" may be a weak paraphrase of fighters' talk, though the context makes this seem unlikely. But a few pages later there is something that would earn an automatic C minus in freshman English: "No one ever looked good wearing out their hands on Chuvalo...