Word: spellings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rule currently being challenged stipulates that any candidate for statewide office must first get 15 percent of the votes in the otherwise non-binding convention to get his name on the primary ballot. That rule, upheld unanimously last week by the Supreme Judicial Court, could spell disaster for O'Neill, who is currently backed by no more than 10 percent of the delegates, selected in ward caucuses three months...
...machines crop up in the lives of youngsters even before they enter school-and sometimes before they learn to walk or talk-in the guise of such siliconized gadgetry as Little Professor and Speak & Spell. With a few presses of the button, these computerized games produce flashing lights, squealing sounds and disembodied voices that inculcate the rudiments of spelling and calculating. A record of sorts may have been set by Corey Schou, a computer scientist at the University of Central Florida in Orlando: he rigged up a home computer so his five-month-old daughter could operate it by pressing...
QUITE A LOT of President Bok's recently released report on federal financial aid could be mistaken for one of his frequent open letters. Thirty pages are a leisurely and articulate analysts of a complex issue, devoid of the concrete proposals that could spell alarm or comprehensive policy change. The dangerous surprise doesn't come till about halfway through...
...only temporary, they did not need to have been reviewed by students--shows a gross insensitivity. That lack of concern is also reflected in another suggestion by Dingman and others--that high maintenance costs and the "need" for more summer school rooms and even squash courts may eventually spell the end of on-campus storage altogether...
...curious in art history. An Italian, born in 1888 and raised partly in Greece-where his father, an engineer, planned and built railroads-he led a long, productive life, almost Picassian in length; he died in 1978. He had studied in Munich, and in his early 20s, under the spell of a symbolist painter named Arnold Böcklin, he began to produce a series of strange, oneiric cityscapes. When they were seen in Paris after 1911, they were ecstatically hailed by painters and poets from Picasso to Paul Eluard; before long De Chirico became one of the heroes...