Word: grade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main engineer I will say that my hand is once more firmly on the throttle, and despite the latest explosion and other puny efforts to throw a monkey wrench into the machinery, or to put goose grease on the track, the old train, thank God, is still making the grade...
...dividing it into five classes "according to the varying degrees of success in their life careers." Group one, after the final selective process has been carried out, is made up of men who have excelled unmistakably and whose intellectual powers approach genius. Group two is composed of distincly high-grade men who have no attained true eminence; Group three might be said to hold the Average Man, not good, not bad; Group four is made up largely of the "unfortunates," who through ill health, lack of means, or absence of a normal endowment of native ability rather than the will...
...requirement for those who pass the English college board with a mark of 70 per cent or better has complicated rather than solved the problem. Confronted by the danger of having its students receive no more training in English literature and composition than just enough to obtain a creditable grade in a college entrance examination the Engineering School has decided to make one more advanced English course obligatory for all those who escape English...
...courses and deprive even the first two years of college of their cultural attributes. Still another device, the junior college, to all intents and purposes a two year continuance of the high school course, offers students the temptation not to try to get any general knowledge above high school grade from any source. From Mr Jones' representation, public education is directed to near-sighted practical goals...
...John S. Huyler, father of Frank, founded the company in 1876, after concocting a high grade molasses candy in his father's bakery. On his death in 1910 the three sons, David, Frank and Coulter inherited the business. In 1925 they sold their manufacturing business and 51 retail stores to a southern syndicate, which in turn sold out to the Schulte Retail Stores Corp. (TIME...