Word: grade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...educative process--a process in which progress is measured by tangible milestones of years and figures. Passing of the final marks is the attainment of the ultimate goal. At no point must the youthful wayfarer turn aside from the path; his vision is fixed continually on the next grade, the next entrance barrier, the next degree. By the time he reaches college he too has no understanding of education and little greater desire...
...contribution of Mrs. Hamilton Rice, formerly Mrs. George B. Widener, the donor of the original building, made possible the renewal of operations. Workmen are now occupied in installing the unit construction steel supports and shelves, similar in form to the stacks on the above floors. The floors of high grade Vermont marble are in place and it is expected that in two months time the addition will be settled and ready for occupancy. An added space of three feet between the two new floors insures better ventilation and less crowded over head space than in the old stacks...
Down, down, down go earnings of U. S. automobile tire makers (TIME, Aug. 27). And down, down, down go the prices of tires. To leading companies, U. S. Rubber and the "biggest" Goodyear Tire & Rubber, last week announced a 20% slash in the cost of second grade tires, meeting a similar reduction by Firestone Tire...
...Alai (pronounced "hi-a-li")-fast Spanish mixture of handball, lacrosse and court tennis. Long popular in Cuba, jai-alai has invaded the U. S. as far inland as Chicago, where a high-grade fronton with imported professional players affords urbane North Siders polite outlet for their betting instincts...
...Stock Journal. In its place there now is published The Rural Digest, a 32-pager, conceived, conscribed, composed and cut after the fashion of TIME, the Newsmagazine. The object: to boil down to terse paragraphs of restatement or selective quotation every 30 days, all the agricultural news a high-grade farmer ought to know...