Word: grammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school readers and grammars became more prosaic, duller. Recently schoolbook readability has been on the upswing. Last week many a delighted moppet began the fall term with a quaint new grammar, full, like The New England Primer, of verses, pictures and homely illustrations. Unlike the Primer, however, A Living Grammer* takes for its theme not piety...
...elementary courses in German are are arranged the same as in French. German A is the elementary course. It was reorganized recently with a purpose of making it more interesting. It has become more so to the linguistic student who picks up the grammer easily from the reading and presumably concentrators would be in this group. But at the same time it has become more difficult for those who need a good solid grammatical foundation before they can read with profit...
...aisle. No business was done. From Denver, Democrat Walter Walker flew to Washington, was sworn in as Colorado's Senator pending the arrival of the official election certificate of Republican Karl Schuyler. Two other new Senators: North Carolina's Robert Reynolds and Washington's Elyot Grammer. Absent was Pennsylvania's Senator Davis, whose right to sit has been questioned since his indictment in connection with the Moose lottery (TIME, Aug. 29; Oct. 10). His wife explained that he had gone to Battle Creek, Mich, for a minor nasal operation...
...later Jackson biographers, "and spitefully and most unjustly wrote in his diary. 'As myself, an affectionate child of our Alma Mater, I would not be present to witness her diagrace in conferring her highest literary honors upon a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammer and hardly could spell his own name...