Word: graded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From their pet playwright the glittering audience got only Grade B Coward. One superb, side-splitting burlesque of an English charity pageant is probably the funniest sketch that Coward has ever written. Two of the songs, Mad About the Boy and The Stately Homes of England...
Arriving in Manhattan after six weeks in Hollywood "for me 'olidays," blonde, blowzy British Comedienne Grade Fields whistled, whooped, kicked her legs in the air, dunked doughnuts obligingly for photographers, said: "I've got a lot of funny noises. I'm a bit nuts, but don't tell anybody...
...time-consuming activities and sports are not on such firm ground. Except for the just plain "loafers," these groups undoubtedly supply the tutoring schools with their most willing material. And the trend of increased concentration and increased pressure due to the influx of more and more students chosen from grade competition makes these activities a hazardous undertaking from the scholastic point of view. President Conant's words were indeed an encouraging sign for those who believe education in its broadest, sense to be the best possible adjustment of individuality...
...next competitive examination for students under the program, covering the second grade of progress in the reading, will be given on April 15. Two prizes, of $100 and $50, will be offered for the best papers...
...year 1939-40, this Committee has announced that only those students who have obtained Honors (a grade of 595) in the College Board examination in English will be exempt without further examination. Students who receive a grade between 560, which has previously been the exemption level, and 595 will be given an opportunity, if they wish to use it, of taking the special English examination on registration day in September...