Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fingerprinting for children has won the backing of the FBI, state and local police, politicians, churches, schools, civic groups and businesses. In Waltham, Mass., 93% of the 4,600 grammar and junior high students have rolled their fingers on print cards at school since March. In Topeka, Kans., more than 8,000 youngsters, ages nine months to 17 years, have showed up at malls, churches, schools and scout troop meetings since Christmas to take advantage of the police-sponsored Ident-A-Kid program. On Mother's Day weekend, employees of Honeywell in Clearwater, Fla., brought 93 of their offspring...
Your article on handwriting [March 21] reminded me of my grammar school days, when the Palmer method was introduced. I refused to do the exercises, claiming that we should not all write alike, an opinion I still hold. As a result of my steadfastness, I spent most of my time in the principal's office...
Lambdin, who came to Harvard from Johns Hopkins University in 1960, said that the demands of his postition prevented him from exploring areas outside of his field. In addition to writing two books, on historical Semitic grammar and on Egyptian mortuary texts. Lambdin plan to compile a research dictionary that will allow others to continue his work...
...books, laundry, ajar of Dippity Do. An experienced programmer at Control Data before she decided to have children, she now settles in at the computer right after breakfast, sometimes holding the baby in a sling. She starts by reading her computer mail, then sets to work converting a PLATO grammar program to a disc that will be compatible with Texas Instruments machines. "Midmorning I have to start paying attention to the three-year-old, because he gets antsy," says Hardinger. "Then at 11:30 comes Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers, so that's when I usually get a whole...
...through Soviet occupation and Nazi terror, spending four years in Maidanek, Dachau and Auschwitz and escaping death only through a combination of luck and nerve. One of the youngest survivors of the concentration camps, Pisar lost his entire family to the war and was the only student in his grammar school of 900 to survive. Although he eventually earned doctorates from Harvard and the Sorbonne and rose to intellectual and political peaks, it is the vivid memory of his youth that gives him his sense of mission--of destiny...