Word: graded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chattering youngsters were bussing to the Brook Park Elementary School, across the road from Cleveland's Airport. Some peered out of the frosty windows at the light snow on Sheldon Road. Others made last-minute efforts at homework. The bus stopped at a grade crossing on the New York Central R. R. while a passenger train clanked by on the gleaming tracks. Driver and children watched the swaying cars. None thought to look up or down the broad right...
...past month, Governor Myers Y. Cooper wrote a stern letter to Director of Education John L. Clifton. Said he: "It is evident that these accidents were avoidable if proper precautions had been taken." The Director of Education, in turn, urged two-man bus crews, strict vigilance at grade crossings. The dead driver of the Brook Park bus was held culpable by the coroner...
...line operated by the Denver & Salt Lake Railway Co., six are important. These are the six miles of the famed Moffat tunnel, which pierces James Peak, 50 miles west of Denver.* It shortens the transcontinental route between Denver and Salt Lake City by about 175 miles, cuts the ruling grade from 4% to 2%. The Denver & Salt Lake has a 50-year lease (with a 49-year renewal option) on the tunnel...
During the fall rowing season there were no attempts made to grade the oarsmen but since then the coaches have selected a number of candidates of high calibre and these men will participate in a regular competition even before the shells have been shipped on the Charles. The problem of finding an adequate stroke oar, is, as it was last year, the most vexing problem confronting the coaching staff...
...returns in the Imperial Suite of the Bremen with Charles Lindbergh and Gene Tunney. He knows his James Joyce and can quote Millay by the hour. Above all, he is always courteous, correct, and an extremely presentable young gentleman, despite the fact that he has usually imbibed more imported grade A spirits than Bismarck could have consumed in his halcyon days...