Word: spelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Norma Jeane was sent to an orphanage. "I remember," she says, "when I got out of the car, and my feet absolutely couldn't move on the sidewalk. I saw a big black sign with bright gold lettering. I thought it said 'Orphan.' I never could spell very well. I know I cried. They had to drag me in by force. I tried to tell them I wasn't an orphan." Soon after that Norma Jeane began to stutter...
...adequate courts that do exist are inaccessible from March to June to all but the thirty members of the varsity and freshmen teams. Others--be they House players or just poor amateurs--must go to the 25 green-painted asphalt courts, deceptively attractive from a distance. But such surfaces spell death to sneakers ($6.95 a pair) and balls ($2.15 a can) within two hours, and cause high, unorthodox bounces. The fact that the lines have faded with the years is made more annoying by the balls' friendly, blending shade of green. Since both ball and line are invisible, "take...
Pillar of Learning. In Garber, Okla., the editors of the Free Press, who had moved to a new office, apologized for a rash of misspellings in recent editions of the newspaper: "Please excuse. Most of the words we use frequently and cannot spell are written correctly on the wall in our old location...
...what President Nance did not spell out to his stockholders this week was the board's desperate search for a way to keep the company going. Back in January S-P had gone to the big investment bankers hoping to get a large, long-term loan. One after another, the bankers had said...
Only a few Latin plays kept the organization alive for the next 27 years when the spell was finally broken in 1933 when Harry T. Levin, now Professor of English, took the lead as Odysseus in Philoctetes of Sophocles. Levin, it is said, learned Greek especially for the part...