Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grace Fernald's clinic school at U.C.L.A. [TIME, July 12] unwittingly puts a finger on the fundamental fault of present-day grade school education. Why was a boy who was unable to read or write promoted year after year until he reached the fifth grade ? And how much further would he have been promoted if he hadn't gone to the clinic school...
...snakes, 64-year-old Grace Wiley loved the cobras best. They were the most intelligent, she thought, and the most easily tamed. "It's just that people are afraid to try to tame them. They know that you can only fail once with a king cobra...
...pacesetter in the new whirl of the inflationary spiral was a 9% wage hike by U.S. Steel Corp. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Big Steel's Ben Fairless promptly announced that steel prices would have to go up also. Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Eugene Grace and most of the industry followed Big Steel's lead on wages, and began figuring price increases, too. In addition to the wage increase, the new prices would also have to cover higher coal prices (which added up to $1.25 a ton to the cost of finished steel) and a freight rate increase which...
...Greece, via the English Channel, the rivers and canals of France, and the Mediterranean Sea. His crew consisted of wife Isabel, whom Millar describes as if she were a delicate platinum watch to which salt water would be fatal, but who suggests, in action, the most efficient boatwoman since Grace Darling...
...only one, Pastors and Masters, takes place after 1918) and all her characters, regardless of their age and education, talk in a language which is a combination of Gertrude Stein at her clearest and a book of Victorian etiquette at its most pompous ("Will you rise with your unconscious grace and ring the bell?" they say). They talk thus even when they are planning murder, fraud and forgery, or saying aloud the thoughts that living people are most careful not to say. They do their grim talking in dining rooms and nurseries which the author hardly ever describes, but which...