Word: grammer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frank Shields of Columbia Grammer School, New York City, defeated Henry Johnson of New Preparatory School, Cambridge, by 6-4, 8-6, 3-6, 7-5 in the finals of the thirty-sixth annual Harvard Interscholastic tennis tournament at Divinity Field yesterday. The match was hard-fought from start to finsh, Johnson led in the last get by 5-3, when Shields rallied to take four straight games for the match...
...When I left grammer school, I planned to learn the printer's trade," he began. "I thought my lameness would interfere least with this occupation. All summer I looked for a job, but none turned up. So, when the schools opened in the fall, I drifted into high school, thinking that I could find a job as well while in school as out. Two years passed and I was still looking for that chance to learn the printer's trade...
...care. They follow the original text literally thus forming a valuable and legitimate help to the student in his effort to master the difficulties. The use of translations is recommended by numerous educators. They deplore that a student's time should be wasted in eternal thumbing of vocabulary and grammer. The use of correct translations guarantees correct solution of idioms and quick insight into the sense...
...creative genius and the attitude of constructive living are being smothered in our present grammer schools because, we are told with splendid intuition, of logically arranged and logically presented content. What those phrases mean the adherents of them do not say it is enough that they have been given to the world. The storm-center of the educational havoc has been found...
...Henry George (1839-1897), after hardly more than a grammer-school education in Philidelphia, leda varied life, including seafaring, elopement, printing, journalism. In 1879 he published his most famous work, Progress and Poverty, which sold by millions and was translated into several languages. He toured Ireland, England, Australia for his cause-a single tax, a tax that would support all government by consuming all the economic rent of the land. The slogan of the Single Tax Party was at one time: "We Want the Earth...