Word: penmanship
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...Cincinnati, Alva Wonnell, 59, high-school teacher famed for his penmanship, hanged himself in his basement. His salary had been cut. He feared dismissal...
Writer Bloser, 26, a teacher of penmanship, was arrested, charged with obtaining money under false pretenses. According to D. Appleton & Co., he insisted he wrote the story himself when in school many years ago. Miss Gale expressed her belief in Bloser's innocence of deliberate plagiarism. Bloser made a financial settlement with Liberty, received a suspended sentence...
...sort; instructors of the old school will claim the present day student has become lazy through easy curricula, and most students will rationalize their action by believing that recreation will freshen their minds and build up a physical reserve for their wrist to be used in the three-hour penmanship and memory contest...
...little suitcase he had some old pages, scrawled over in a faint curlicue handwriting, which he had recently purchased. These old pages, now bound into heavy leather volumes each stamped with the Scottish crest, were old letters and manuscripts, mostly unpublished, mostly written in the thin legible penmanship of James Boswell...
...reference devices. S. E. Thomason, business manager of the Chicago Tribune, brought out a bank deposit slip and made the pupils total it up- a test of reliability in practical arithmetic. Other tests were given, by qualified testers, in literary taste, good manners, music, history, civics, composition, penmanship, drawing, art appreciation, safety methods. At the end, Superintendent McAndrew declared himself well satisfied. He felt sure the pupils were learning the things expected of them by their parents and the taxpaying public. His seven appraisers shared his view-appraisers drawn from city clubs, the Association of Commerce, the postoffice. Soon, declared...