grammar school
noun
1
: a school intermediate between primary school and high school
3
a
: a secondary school emphasizing Latin and Greek in preparation for college
b
: a British college preparatory school
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He was born in New York and grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, starting his grammar school’s first newspaper before writing a humor column for the newspaper while a student at Morristown High School.
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Mark Kennedy, Fortune, 15 June 2026
He was born in New York and grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, starting his grammar school’s first newspaper before writing a humor column for the newspaper while a student at Morristown High School.
—Mark Kennedy, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2026
He was born in New York and grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, starting his grammar school’s first newspaper before writing a humor column for the newspaper while a student at Morristown High School.
—ABC News, 12 June 2026
The son of a minor industrialist in Karachi, Naqvi studied at a British-style grammar school and then the London School of Economics, before working at Amex and Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm that would later be destroyed in the Enron scandal.
—Hettie O'Brien, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026
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Mark Kennedy, Fortune, 15 June 2026
He was born in New York and grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, starting his grammar school’s first newspaper before writing a humor column for the newspaper while a student at Morristown High School.
—Mark Kennedy, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2026
He was born in New York and grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, starting his grammar school’s first newspaper before writing a humor column for the newspaper while a student at Morristown High School.
—ABC News, 12 June 2026
The son of a minor industrialist in Karachi, Naqvi studied at a British-style grammar school and then the London School of Economics, before working at Amex and Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm that would later be destroyed in the Enron scandal.
—Hettie O'Brien, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026
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