Word: graded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...physically fit, instead of old and heavy and stiff, I should myself ask to go under you in any capacity down to and including a sergeant; but I suppose I could not do work you would consider worth while in the fighting line (my only line) in a lower grade than brigade commander...
...ground stations nearest them en route. Radioman Hoover designed the system and supervised the installations until tuberculosis laid him low. But it was carried to completion by his No. 1 assistant and childhood friend, pink-cheeked, modest John Curtis Franklin, 26. "Jack" Franklin and "Herbie" Hoover, close neighbors, attended grade school together in Palo Alto, Calif. As high-school students during the War they had "ham" (amateur) radio stations in their houses, would shout excitedly across the street to verify what signals they could pick up. Both boys entered Stanford University where Franklin's father, Professor Edward Curtis Franklin...
...prospects of a fairly lucrative and respectable profession more enticing than a life devoted to human welfare, whatever the personal sacrifice. One can hardly expect any other attitude in an age when material success is so highly prized, but the situation does not tend toward keeping up the high-grade morale demanded by the Medical Profession...
...Each student at Yale shall select not more than five courses each year and junior and seniors whose work is of quality grade may, with the written approval of the class officer or dean, elect less than five courses...
...student will be recommended for the degree only when he has completed successfully the work of all four years and has received a grade of 27 or better in at least six courses...