Word: spelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took over in 1939. In those days the 133-acre S.M.U. campus, just north of Dallas, had twelve buildings. Now it sparkles with the gold domes, white dormers and tall steeples of 28. Umphrey Lee (who explains the Umphrey by saying, "Some of my ancestors just couldn't spell") thinks that he raised maybe $6,000 toward all this...
Fred Ayer of the University of Texas tested high-school students in 82 cities, then reached back to 1915 for comparison. Sample findings: in 1915, high-school students had no trouble with trouble, but nowadays, 9% manage to spell it wrong; almost everybody used to get loose right, but 23% muff it now. Misspellers of business have jumped from 6% in 1915 to 24% today; of independent from 12% to 25%; of stomach, from...
This spring will be a period of exemption, a breathing spell, something to hang on to, enjoy, and take advantage of. Depending on what some of the large-scale domestic planners and dreamers in Washington finally decide, it may or may not bring possibilities for constructive fruitions, commissions, or what have you. Depending on what the even largerscale planners and dreamers in several national capitals decide, it may or may not see a way out of the pessimism and cynicism. But whatever decisions are made, the springs of the future are going to need a good deal of resuscitation...
...Saint Marc knows that trouble is ahead. Sure enough, a few days later, Diogène's wife comes down with a seizure, screaming, "I beg you, please get this sack off my head..." Everyone knows what that means: Zéline has cast a spell...
Later, she visited her son again and confided that he had "had a crying spell." She added: "But he's got lots of git and will come out on top. You'll see." She said a stranger had telephoned and promised Bob a new car when he is discharged. An anonymous donor had already had a television set installed in his room. "People are very considerate," she said. "But all we want now is some rest and quiet. Bob's not licked...