Word: grade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unevenness of weights is generally a problem for any coaches of class football. In a group of men reporting for the game large, earnest, and unwieldy athletes who cannot make the grade on the first or second-string University squads stand beside equally earnest sportsmen whose 130 pounds is a handicap in any football circle. There is a consequent lack of balance in intramural football elevens that detracts from the zest of competition...
Leather. Many U. S. makers of shoes, purses, gloves, buy their high grade goat and kid skins from Martin Zimmer Lederwerke, A. G., of Frankfort-am-Main, Ger many, and their reptile skins from Alpina Ltd. of Paris and Berne. The two tanning firms are now consolidated...
This has been true during his eight years as Governor in securing the adoption of a state park system, in the promotion of social legislation, in advancing public education, in a comprehensive grappling with grade-crossing evils, in the protection of the power resources of the state from selfish exploitation. The so-called economic questions of the future are only in part economic. Largely they involve a redistribution of responsibility and power; a more effective share by labor and agriculture in the nation's councils. The emphasis of Mr. Hoover's whole thought is the assumption that increasing industrial efficiency...
...Administration, but there were potent oil men in Kansas who wanted to know what was what. Not the lease provocative feature of Oilman Sinclair's Salt Creek contract was that it was exceedingly bad business for the U. S. Prices had risen and Sinclair was getting high grade oil from the U. S. far below the market...
...hospitals good enough for the American Medical Association to bother inspecting. Of those 1,919 (or 70 out of 100) are good grade (on the "approved list"); they have fair to excellent equipment for treatment and research. The situation is not perfect. But it is pleasing to doctors. Ten years ago only 12 out of 100 U. S. hospitals were fit for praise...