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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Moakley last night announced the Cornell entries following a series of trials for places on the squad. At the same time word was received from Ithaca that MacNeil, who won the mile in the triangular meet last year, his been placed on probation and will not be able to compete. The loss of the star Ithacan distance man is a serious blow to the hopes of the Cornell squad. Coach Hillman also announced the Green squad last night...
From far and wide the delegates had gathered. The slogan of the convention was GOODWILL, a word which had been thought up by the directors of the association. They knew that their fellow members understand as well as any merchants in the U. S. the meaning of that fine phrase, and the dry-goods men, as is their wont, responded heartily. Many were the delighted slaps and winks, the chewed cigars, the roguish stories passed from lip to lip amid shouts of, "Brother, you surely made a sale with that one" . . . "Let me tell...
...addition to dispensing stateliness of presence, ring of voice, ability to cerebrate while vertical, and modern substitutes for the Demosthenic pebble, Dr. Covington studies the vocabulation of his charges. He estimates that the average educated person has a nodding acquaintance* with 18,000 English words, or possibly twice that number. It is very difficult to be exact. Ten years ago he took in hand a list of 100 words that should be recognized by this hypothetical person, and administered it to his students year after year. The students had to use each word in a sentence, and brilliant examples would...
...longest English word I ever saw is disestablishmentarianism...
Last week the National Kindergarten and Elementary College of Chicago published a tabulation of conversations recorded in 30 U. S. and Canadian kindergartens over a month's time. "I" was the word used most frequently, averaging 1,044 times; "the" was second, 616 times; "teacher" came eighth; "what," 13th; "mother," 24th; "father," 80th ("papa" appeared entirely obsolete). "Please" and "thank you" were almost unknown. City children knew fighting words and slang. The size of an average kindergartner vocabulary was not made public after this laborious study...