Word: spelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always been a progressive, Lucy Mitchell concedes that some of the early U.S. experimenters went too far: "Many were terrified of any kind of memory work. They thought if stultified the child. That's tommyrot. There's no reason why a child shouldn't spell well or why he shouldn't know his multiplication table...
Fourteen agencies were told by the White House to take a reef in federal public-works programs. Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan was busy looking for a way to spell "Brannan Plan" backwards. After two years of campaigning to give farmers permanent high incomes, he was under White House orders to work out a scheme for keeping food prices from going any higher...
Before anyone had said so officially, without needing someone to spell it out, the U.S. people had realized that this was going to be a long pull and a tough one. Said one veteran: "At first, all of us were sort of kidding about it, saying 'Well, are you ready to go?' Now the kidding has stopped." Last week, looking at the news pictures as the First Marine Division embarked at San Diego, every veteran was wondering: How soon will they want...
...Stretch on the River is a slight and rambling saga and its humor runs largely to wisecracks, but it has a fine, easy familiarity with river life and describes its spell with casual, vernacular effectiveness. Though the book is no Huckleberry Finn, it has some of Mark Twain's own feeling for the rugged, easygoing river hands on the Mississippi...
...this trend continues, there will soon be no purpose in a spelling bee. When we reach phonetic spelling (it will then be fonetic), the stupid will be able to spell as well as the bright...