Word: graded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...professors were given the grade of "A", led by Professor Morris Raphael Cohen of the Philosophy Department. A some more received "B" marks, 40 were graded "O", while 15 professors were marked "IV" ten "E" and five "F". The prime consideration, it is announced has been the professor's general ability as a teacher. Personality and knowledge of the subject were considered secondary factors, while glittering, platitudinizng and liberal posing have been marked very low as creating an ephemeral and specious interest...
...wretched voice of an unintelligent woman wined through a third-grade classroom in Kansas, Mo., one morning last week...
...greatness is complete, the "oneself" has been sung. The rest is controversial and boisterous"Walt the boastful, Walt the Broadway swaggerer. It is splendid and touching?Walt nursing Civil War soldier boys, Walt's seerhood and second childhood in Camden, N. J. But it is all on the down grade, all in the public eye and more or less familiar, all but the peace of Walt's profound epitaph?...
What the sentence consisted of was "reduction of four numbers in grade," meaning that Colonel Williams now stands No. 22 instead of No. 18 in the queue of Colonels waiting to be made Brigadier Generals. He will have to wait in line about six months or a year more than he would had he not invited General Butler to his party that night. Later, Colonel Williams was transferred from San Diego to San Francisco, put in charge of the western recruiting service...
...picture is not unamusing. Douglas does himself noble as the master of pantomime and Margaret is there with the ankles when the infield breaks. The lighting is bad and the settings are rather trivial, but the humor is Grade B, domestic, and good for a hot night. But that...