Word: writings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank S. Hewitt Jr., is eleven years of age and in the 6th grade. His class has what they call "The Story Tellers Club." Last month the club was called on by the teacher to write a short original narrative poem, and the enclosed is Frank Jr.'s contribution...
What is the prospect of the war-not in terms of human, political or economic suffering-but in terms of its military factors from which all other consequences will spring? No man can write its history beforehand. Yet an outline for its history has already been laid down in the armies and the armaments of Europe...
...accused of plagiarizing it. She had written a few articles for The Saturday Evening Post and was considered an intelligent journalist, but she was a reporter and no pundit. Then, in March 1936, Mrs. Ogden Reid, super-clubwoman vice president of the New York Herald Tribune, hired her to write a column. It was to run on the same page as Lippmann's Today and Tomorrow, three times a week, and it was expected to present the woman's point of view toward such public matters as women could be expected to grapple with...
...report recognizes the fact that the English department teaches competition and that students exempt from English A are expected to write clear prose, but the Committee recommends that "every other department should insist that ideas be clearly and correctly expressed before they are accepted are evidence that the student possesses an adequate grasp of the subject...
...Committee feels that because an examination is written under pressure is no excuse for poor English. Students who write badly on examinations probably also write badly when they have more time, is the belief of the investigators...