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Word: graded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the innauguration of the new American-Canadian Collegiate League, a better grade of hockey is promised for this season than has been seen in college circles lately. In this league, made up of Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale in the United States and McGill, Queens, Montreal, and Toronto in Canada, each team will play on a home and home arrangement in its own division and then meet each of the other teams at least once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/14/1936 | See Source »

...current renovation. In the meantime Economics seems to have picked up more men who would otherwise be taking the Holcombe course than has History. The fact that these three remain unchallenged is one of great importance. When it is observed that only one science course, Biology D, made the grade at all, it can be realized that general interest at present continues along a broader plane and that science still belongs to the specialist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STARS REMAIN | 11/6/1936 | See Source »

...what it was, and probably never will be again.' Ever since Colonel Hawker wrote so scathingly of the Milf ord snobs -that unrivalled garrison of tit-shooters and shore-poppers, writers would have us be lieve that the sport has been on the down grade. But I believe this to be a fallacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Autumn Flight | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...nine miles south from the southerly side of Goodnews Bay, on lower Kuskokwim Bay, and gave this nugget to Chas. Thorsen, a gold minor of that section. Thorsen sent some to the Alaska School of Mines, Fairbanks for analyzing and was informed that the sample was a very good grade of crude platinum. Of course this information leaked out another stampede was under way. During the next year a number of other "strikes" were made and for the next six years almost 2,000 oz. of placer platinum were mined each year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1936 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...covers 1,250,000 acres, fronts on the Gulf of Mexico for 80 miles. Before the Society of Motion Picture Engineers at Rochester, N. Y., Board Chairman Merlin Hall Aylesworth of Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. demanded higher cinema admission prices, declared: "The wasteful, injurious practice . . . of giving away one Grade A picture with one Grade B picture is like eating too much ice cream at one time." Stricken in Hollywood with bronchial pneumonia lay Cinemactress Norma Shearer, widow of famed Producer Irving Thalberg who died last month of lobar pneumonia (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 26, 1936 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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