Word: grade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...needy students may continue in college for the balance of the academic year. The administrator is Harry Hopkins. The average amount of these allotments is fifteen dollars per student for those students who cannot continue in college without it. Another provision is that only such students who do high-grade work are eligible for the allotment. All those receiving grants will have to work for a definite period of time each week on some intramural...
...Cuba; and the depression coming pari passu with high tariff was the cause of the present unrest. From the consumer's point of view these tariffs against Cuban sugar are unfortunate; the American growers cannot satisfactorily supply the market demand, and Cuban sugar is cheaper and of a higher grade. If the Philippine production could be cut out of the market, there would be consumption adequate to support both the American and the Cuban planter. Therefore our antiquated imperialism over the Philippines is economically unjustified...
Meanwhile downstairs dog-lovers had finished their plodding up & down between the solid rows of wire-fronted boxes where lay most of the 2,455 dogs which had not made the final grade. Two days earlier the dogs had been alert and slick, primed to the pink by kennelmen looking to reputation and profits through wins in the No. 1 U. S. dog show. Now dogs and handlers lolled together in the cramped boxes, panting in unison. But there was still enough spirit left in the terriers and high-strung German Shepherds to keep the basement a yapping bedlam...
...Palooka (Reliance) derives its name from ringside slang for a low-grade prizefighter. Its story hangs around a pudgy young oaf (Stuart Erwin) who takes up with a fretful, excitable boxing manager (Jimmy Durante) and demonstrates that he cannot fight. Though he manages to knock down a champion (William Cagney, brother of James) who is in his cups, though he importantly squires a night club artist (Lupe Velez). Joe Falooka eventually takes a thorough mauling in the ring. This sends him back to a chicken farm where his mother (Marjorie Rambeau) has wanted...
...Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the names of people and places are changed, but the thin disguise is not intended to deceive. A nonpolitical novelist, Bunin is out of step with his countrymen but beats no rival drum. Quietly certain that Russia is on the down grade, he says: "I know for sure that I grew up in the epoch of the greatest Russian might, and of the full consciousness of it." Born the third son of impoverished country gentry, "Alexey Alexandrovich Arseniev" grew up in central Russia in an atmosphere of shabby nobility and melancholy decay. His father...