Word: penmanship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mother, young Louis, age 5, bustled about -when the fighting came near-carrying baskets of food and coffee to Union soldiers. On the day of the Battle of Bull Run he got a licking in school. But in school he got marks of 6 (perfection) in everything but penmanship (only 5). At Harvard Law School, he broke the school record with an average mark of 87. But President Eliot of Harvard grumbled at letting him graduate: he was five months short of 21 years old. On Commencement morning the trustees suspended the rules, graduated him cum laude...
...noon, the wishing hour of mystic Adolf Hitler, four men sat down to scribble the future on four copies of a pact. By their penmanship the kingless kingdom of Hungary joined the three-way pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan on Sept...
...want the inside dope on how all those documents get in your registration envelopes, and what happens to them after you fill them out, you'll have to look in a thirty-page "Report on Harvard College Registration" prepared by Leonard R. Hooper, Jr., who bossed the annual penmanship marathon last year and who is now teaching at Williams...