Word: spelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grievance: after the professor had given me high marks on my lab notes, they passed under the sharp eyes of the English teacher, and she would sentence me to an hour every afternoon for two weeks among the short-pants boys in the prep department to learn how to spell. I wonder if they still do that...
...that point, the rules of the game changed: a contestant had to spell not only the word her opponent missed, but another one as well. Sandra's opponent, Jean Copeland of the Prescott (Ariz.) Junior High School, knocked off solecism and encomium, while Sandra got mnemonic. Then Sandra spelled cedilla with an "s," and it was only because Jean flubbed papyraceous that Sandra was saved. By word No. 534, Spelling-Bee Director Charles Schneider was wondering whether he would have to declare a draw...
...nurse who answered thought at first that Sagorsky was drunk, so she spent a lot of time getting me to describe his symptoms and spell his name," Ronald W. Tatum '57 said yesterday, "Several other calls were made, but it was at least 40 minutes before the Infirmary sent us a doctor," he added...
...Lewis' ferocious hatred of what he called "emotionally excited, closely-packed, heavily-standardized mass-units acting in a blond ecstatic unison" that caused his unpopularity in the '305. although he himself acted in unison of a sort with the Hitler regime-but only for a very brief spell...
...school professor remarked this morning that he would have like to review the book review, but he didn't know how to spell his one word comment, a sound eminated by putting ones tongue between ones check and trying to whistle. Laurence Levine and Phil Costello...