Word: spelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West's concern with the religious illiteracy of college students who spell "prophet" as "profit" (TIME, Sept. 25) brings to mind a private collection of schoolboy howlers shown me by a friend who was tutoring a freshman economics class at the University of Toronto two years ago. On an examination, one of his students wrote to the effect that "depressions are caused when the prophets are not so good...
...around Washington. The rumor: that the President would go on the air just before the elections to lay down the law on U.S. mobilization. The speech, so the story went, would go far beyond the "work harder" generalities of Harry Truman's recent Korean war pep talks and spell out the specific controls and sacrifices necessary to put the U.S. on an adequate defense footing...
...Frederick West, who has taught religion in Texas Christian University, Lynchburg College, Va. and Wabash College, Ind., examined "nearly 2,000 students in both church and non-church colleges." More than half of them, he reported ruefully, spell "prophet" as "profit...
...Compare," Dr. Salaman urged his colleagues, "the fate of the potato with that of the Jerusalem artichoke, a physiologically unsatisfactory food which reached France a decade later. After a short spell of popularity, it faded out of the picture without leaving a mark on the structure of society in France or anywhere else." The few gourmands who still fancy that pulpy, parsnippy root, which is no kin to the conelike epicurean artichoke (Cynara scolymus), claim that the Jerusalem artichoke tastes best after it has been frozen m the ground. Most of society will doubtless remain content to leave it there...
...After a spell as a reporter for City Editor Lincoln Steffens of the Commercial Advertiser and for the New York Sun, Cahan in 1902 became editor of the then struggling Forward, which he had helped found five years before. Cahan found a paper with a picayunish circulation of 6,000, full of tedious, dust-dry Socialist polemics, written in jabberwocky that few garment workers could understand...