Word: grammar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...literary quality of medical writing, Sir Robert continued, "Many papers on medical psychology, biochemistry or iatromathematical [medico-mathematical] subjects might . . . just as well be written in Chinese. . . . American medical literature . . . exhibits only too often an absence of any sense of style or even of grammar. . . . We are not yet so bad as that here...
...primer tots, third grade reading, fourth grade arithmetic, sixth grade arithmetic (long division seventh grade arithmetic. Lest classes fall behind schedule, Miss Campbell did most of the talking, prodded her pupils to hurry By day's end, Miss Campbell had taught her classes reading, writing, spelling, grammar, arithmetic, geography, history, science. Total amount of instruction for each grade: 50 minutes...
...precise terms for precise communication, so that if a common language is to take the place of special technical vocabularies, it would have to be a mon ster vocabulary requiring a lifetime to master. Dr. Neurath feels that this Tower of Babel can be overstepped by developing a common grammar of science-a unified manner of scientific exposition-so that one savant can understand another if he looks up the unfamiliar words...
Generally the grammar is pretty good, but, in the issue of TIME, July 24, under Transport, occurs this sentence: "[Mrs. Clara Adams] . . . broadcasted over a Honolulu-San Francisco radio hook...
...Elected as its new president plump, energetic Miss Amy Henrietta Hinrichs, a New Orleans elementary-school principal. A longtime English teacher, Miss Hinrichs shudders at misplaced punctuation marks and bad grammar. Among the first to congratulate President-elect Hinrichs were Louisiana's new Governor and Mrs. Earl Long. They wired: "All Louisiana is proud of you. Come and see us when you get home...