Word: plurality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opening of colleges is just about the same sort of ceremony it was a half score years ago. The same carrying of desks, reading lamps, books and dismantled beds across the campi (he remembered the plural of campus), the same tendency to wear clothing that's a little ahead of the latest word, the some old greetings being shouted from windows and doorways and the same searching for gullible freshmen on whom to practice the same old jokes...
Issue of July 29 contains a rather grating error on p. 21 second line under the third mention of the name STIMMING. "Mein herren"' is very poor. It should be "Meine Herren." Nouns are always capitalized no matter where they occur. "Mein" is singular but must agree with the plural of the modified noun in number, "Herren." You are giving yourself repeated boxes on the ears with such expressions...
Potent and almost omnipotent is Signor Benito Mussolini, but not plural. Though he count himself up 1,000 times he must still total himself-one. Last week, however, the cheerful Dictator with the smouldering eyes and confident uplifted chin made the best of his physical singularity by turning himself into a legal majority of 7 in his cabinet...
...Column 2, page 40. "Hoofs" is the more acceptable plural for "hoof." Incidentally, less is known about the slumber habits of horses than of any other domestic animal. I have been around horses for over sixty years and do not remember ever to have actually seen a horse asleep. Certainly they require very little sleep...
There is some doubt as to whether Siamese twins should be discussed in terms of the singular or plural, although from the examples of mental incompatibility they seem occasionally less congenial than identical twins. Margaret ("Maggie") and Mary ("Puddin' ") Gibbs of Holyoke, Mass., reputedly the only U. S. born and bred Siamese twins, vaudeville artists, deny that they are identical. "We have different ideas of pleasure," they say. In England alcoholism and prohibition are united in one pair of Siamese twins...