Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Referring to TIME, April 28 [which reported that 17 out of 36 high-school students misspelled "thermometer"]: I wonder if our young students shouldn't really be complimented for no longer cooperating in wasting untold hours of valuable time in learning to spell with letters having no connection with the sound of the words. . . . More power to the students for having the courage to defy the old mossbacks by refusing to carry this senseless load any longer and thereby-we hope-start a movement for spelling reform...
...want him"), it sounded corny. Instead of changing the line, he took the Hollywood way out: he diverted the audience's attention with background music. Goulding thought up a tune himself, whistled it to an arranger. His tune, to which Elsie Janis later wrote lyrics, became Love, Your Spell Is Everywhere...
Those who contend that U.S. education has thrown the three Rs out the window were rubbing their hands last week. In a New York City high school, 36 students were asked to spell "thermometer." Nineteen got it right; the 17 who got it wrong misspelled it 16 different ways-therometer, thermomitor, thrmometer, termometer, themoneter, thermomiter, tenmometer, thermonter, theometer, themometer, themoeter, termonter, thermoter, thermomter, theremothr, thirommeter...
...York. Then in 1936 came the death of Grandpapa England and the eleven hectic months that ended in Edward VIII's abdication. Feckless little Margaret Rose was disgusted. "Now we'll have to move to the Palace," she said. "And I've only just learned to spell York and now I'm not to use it any more." But Elizabeth's eyes were round and solemn as she spied a letter on the hall table addressed to "Her Majesty the Queen." "That's Mummie now, isn't it," she said in an awestruck...
...Coale considers all the possibilities. If war starts after a spell of international atomic control, there will be a period when few bombs are available. Each nation will frantically start producing more. At the same time, each nation will scatter its population, bury its factories underground, conceal its command centers, stockpile materials and equipment against the day when no more can be produced. The process will not protect the people, but it may allow the nation to preserve some of its strength while under atomic attack, and scrape together enough bombs to wipe out its enemy...