Word: grade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...similar unfortunates in today's sweep-stakes. But no loyal son of a college whose team has defeated Yale's in a competitive examination can doubt that when the smokes of battle have cleared away the last white line will have been passed with at least an honors grade...
Dick followed Clarence about. But Clarence would not let Dick follow him to his eighth grade class in a Marshall County rural school. Dick stayed at home and grew big and fat. Poll came out on his flat, white head; little knobs grew into shiny, short, down-curving horns...
...contest is open to all resident students of Harvard College who are pursuing a regular course of study, and have not completed four years of work in a college or institution of equivalent grade. It is designed to test not only the student's knowledge of facts and events, but also his understanding of their relative meanings and his interpretations of their importance. The field covered in this contest includes current events of political, economic, and social significance...
Student Pitt measured the conductivity of various samples of grain and lumber. These he then dried in an oven, collecting the vapor in an absorbent material which he weighed before and after the baking. This is the way dealers grade their goods. Thus the researcher obtained figures on moisture content and electrical conductivity. These he correlated into a chart. So much electrical resistance meant so much water...
After that it was easy to design a container, connected with an electric circuit and gauge, in which grain or lumber might rest. Where it took hours by the oven process to grade material, the Burton-Pitt machine takes ten minutes...