Word: graded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to this year's tabulations, 39 men received a posture grade of A, three more than last year; 251 received the grade of B, a decrease of three since last year; and 504 received C's while last year the corresponding mark was given to only 351 men. Out of the total of 1061 Freshmen who were examined this fall, 267 received grade of D, which is unsatisfactory, while last year, out of the 813 men examined, 173 received unsatisfactory grades...
...waist, don clean cotton shirts, have their chests x-rayed to learn whether or not they have tuberculosis, enlarged hearts, dropped stomachs or other visceral derangement. Last year New Haven's progressive Department of Health & Board of Education found that 215 out of 563 children in one grade school had traces of tuberculosis. Of the 215, 71 (12.6% of the total) definitely had the disease. Health officials hope that the rate among the older students examined this week will be less, although they worried, "our greatest problem in tuberculosis at this time is among our children in the teen...
...made last summer with Phillips Holmes in Joel McCrea's role was so unsuccessful that RKO did the whole thing over again, with Jane Murfin & Kubec Glasmon to rewrite Horace Jackson's script and George Cukor directing instead of George Fitzmaurice. It emerges finally as a first-grade program picture, lachrymose but reasonable, brightened by Jobyna Howland's expert characterization of Judy's tippling mother. Instructive shot : Jobyna Howland struggling vaguely to stand up while drunk...
...refuted. Certification, used in 90 per cent of American colleges, permits too much leeway to be any accurate standard. Little account is taken of the frequently haphazard or outdated school courses, and there have also been more than a few cases of kind schoolmasters padding a student's grade. The Old Plan examination method of the oldest and best-known American universities depends too much on the chance that the pupil will have the ideal combination of "knowledge, health, and temperament, cleverness, and good luck" at one time...
...Seatrains (TIME, Oct. 17) which carry a mile of loaded freight cars. In 1930 the company began operating a gasoline pipe-line from Marcus Hook to Cleveland, running through Pittsburgh and Youngstown and branching north to Syracuse. The company claims to be the first to develop a high grade antiknock gasoline solely through improvement in cracking processes, as contrasted to the addition of chemicals. Sure of the merits of their Sun Oils and Sunoco gasolines, the Pews have never put out "fighting brands" to meet cheap competition. The company owns or controls 500 filling stations and supplies 11,000 others...