Word: graded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspaper tomorrow or that anyone is going to advertise in it?" Habit and a good name are the only answers that a newspaper can give the investor. These answers evidently inspire confidence, for reputable newspaper bonds are being sold with almost as low a rate of interest as high-grade industrial bonds. Scarcely a week passes without the appearance of some journalistic bond issue (TIME...
...probably always be the low C, and D, and the E men. The Reading Period has proved this truth. It is the A, B and high C men who employed it to the best advantage; on the other hand, the undergraduates who cling to the lower half of the grade hierarchy seem not to have appreciated the experiment...
...ROYAL FAMILY-How high grade actors act off-stage (TIME...
Speeches and good resolutions were duly recorded, in order to be issued in a fat handbook early in 1929. The chief topic of speculation among these teachers and superintendents of grade schools, high schools and "prep" schools was the speech...
...estimated that the U. S. spends 20 million dollars for music each year. His budget allots six millions to the 13 major symphony orchestras, three and a half millions to the Metropolitan and Chicago Opera Companies, the rest to individual artists, summer concert orchestras, a few minor opera companies. Grade A box-office attractions, according to Manager Engles, are Pianists Paderewski, Hofmann, Rachmaninoff; Violinists Kreisler, Heifetz, Elman, Yehudi Menuhin; Singers Schumann-Heink, Garden, Farrar, Jeritza, Galli-Curci, Taliey, Ponselle, McCormack, Chaliapin, Gigli, Schipa. Their gross receipts amount to some three millions a year...