Word: graded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gown, wind the horn. So, thought Chicago's school superintendent, William McAndrew, should those supporting public education be permitted to ladle out a sample of the educational pot and try it to see if the contents have taste, body, zest, quality. Last week he caused 40 eighth-grade pupils, picked at random, to be assembled at desks on the stage of Fullerton Hall at Chicago's Art Institute. He brought together 500 school principals and invited citizens to be audience for the exercises. He chose seven "appraisers" to sit in judgment. He prevailed on a group "who admit...
...Story* moves from west to east, from Kansas City to Sing Sing death chair. It is drab as a freight yard, long and unrelenting as a freight train, dismally disastrous as a fuddled driver and a grade crossing...
Resplendent with its shining brass trimmings, and still capable of doing a good 15 miles per hour on a down grade, one of the first horseless carriages of Cambridge, a 1909 model Maxwell has returned after over a decade of honorable retirement to the scenes of its former glory...
...hollow, so it has just been complained that the former, however devout, are puerile. Alonzo g. Anthony, a proofreader of Reading, Pennsylvania, writes in a letter to Senator Pepper, "The language used by Rev. J. J. Muir, Chaplain of the United States Senate, is like that of a third grade schoolboy...
...pleasure cars, there were two* new makes. There were evidences of factory expansion and a renewed emphasis on quality production at the same time. Only one price-cut was made a point of, and that by a firm (Dodge) into whose product there has never gone anything but high-grade material and workmanship. The Chevrolet Co. planned to spend half a million just on speeding up its distribution. Up and down the line, company presidents were in agreement with their compeer of Nash Motors: "In the automobile industry we look for a big year...