Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Turn the high schools into charm schools. Teach courtesy and grace, the art of dress, dancing, the development of personality and talents, choral singing and personal relationships. There would be no resistance to this kind of curriculum. And after this, two or three years of concentrated history, English, mathematics and languages for those who want these things. And for the others- well, they would at least be as well educated as they are now, and for all of us life would be far more beautiful...
Bethlehem showed a skimpy $88,000 rise, but would have had no rise at all if its bald, bold President Eugene G. Grace had not taken a voluntary pay cut of $316,079, scaling his salary down...
Reactions to the extension announcement varied with class standings. Those in the lower third of the disbursing class, with a breath of relief, recognized the extra two weeks as a period of grace in which to raise averages; whereas, the top third was dismayed over the increased possibility of slipping. The main objection of the center block was that of the students as a group: THAT DAY of getting out into the field and putting our larnin' to work has been set ahead that much farther. But the sincere desire to know the job and be well-equipped on taking...
...there was "Break" Brookenridge working away at a coup de grace on Jack Palmore's door, when he hears, a low laugh. There's Jack right behind him, club in hand. I tell ya the second floor ain't safe for man nor beast...
While at Harvard, where he received his A.B., A.M., and Ph.D., Grace did much to promote complete understanding of the significance of art by advocating the study of its relation to world history...