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Word: graded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have entered the contest in previous years compared to the great amount of interest it created, authorities decided to permit Radcliffe students to take part in the Harvard competition. Winners will be announced about April 1, together with the names of the members of the Department of Government who grade the papers. Last year's winner, H. G. Abdian '30, who is now in the Graduate School, received honorable mention in the intercollegiate competition,--a feat exceeded only by the Harvard entry in 1928, who won first prize in the intercollegiate contest

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIMES ANNOUNCES CONTEST MARCH 4 | 2/27/1931 | See Source »

When a man is permanently injured, his settlement check is HIS LAST RAILROAD CHECK. Generally he knows no other work. It is fair that these men or their dependents receive every dollar to which they are entitled. If there were not a few high grade firms ready to take the stigma of so-called "ambulance chasing" (a term incidentally fostered by corporations most affected by their ability), it would be a sad day for the workingmen of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 23, 1931 | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...bloodthirsty. They liked to drink the warm blood of animals they killed, as you would a glass of milk. They talked to each other with some sort of grunts-umfa umfa-glug glug." Thus did a Perth Amboy, N. J. public school teacher read last week to her sixth grade pupils. One little girl was immeasurably shocked & revolted, went home and told her father. He, Rev. Byron Christopher Nelson, vigorous young Lutheran minister, bounced off to a Kiwanis Club luncheon, read passages from the book, A Child's History of the World. Said he: ". . . There is plenty of other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Umfa Umfa, Glug Glug | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

That there is need for some such system of instruction is demonstrated by the findings of the recent survey which discovered that almost 25 percent of the men and women in the prissons are illiterate, and so many as 75 per cent have never advanced beyond the sixth grade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BIG HOUSES | 2/6/1931 | See Source »

...classroom holiday to permit research and study) and a comprehensive final examination in every course; abolition of half-year courses; requirement that four out of five courses must be passed every year, that during the four years six courses out of the total 20 must be passed with a grade of 275 (corresponding to 75% in other colleges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yale Concession | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

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