Word: graded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candidate's aptitude for adjustment to the professional duties of the service, and another examination covering the fundamentals of that particular field which the candidate intends to enter. The first test counts 30 percent, the second 70 percent, and in order to be eligible, the competitor must make a grade equivalent to at least 70 percent in each of these two sections...
Diplomas with pictures of heroes are popular in public schools. One of the certificates most popular in elementary schools from coast to coast has a picture of Charles Lindbergh and his Spirit of St. Louis. Youngsters who complete their grade-school education in Oklahoma are rewarded with diplomas picturing hat-waving Will Rogers. Most famous Will Rogers line: "All I know is what I read in the papers...
...separating ores from waste, using liquids of higher specific gravity than water, has been used for nearly a century. For over three decades E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. has been trying to devise an economical flotation method for separating impurities such as shale and slate from low-grade anthracite coal. For "parting liquids," they needed mixtures of controllable specific gravity up to three times that of water. Pentachlorethane and tetrabromethane filled this bill-after the Du Pont men worked out a way to use them over & over again cheaply...
...gravely disturbs countries like Italy, where Mussolini has for years struggled to develop an industry which requires few raw materials besides talent and imagination. All Mussolini's efforts have been a flop. Italy has 2,700 theatres, which show 350 films a year. Through 1938, about 200 high-grade films were imported from the U. S. and about 50 low-grade films were made at home...
...Each year the S. P. C. C. has to care for many girls under 16 who are victims of rape, incest, compulsory prostitution. One investigator studied 1,400 rapings of children, found the biggest group were girls in the sixth grade...