Word: graded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intelligence found in The House in Paris nothing to alarm or repel them, felt it descend on their receptive brows not like a hail of sleet but a gentle dew. Far & away Author Bowen's best book, it is certainly one of the few Grade-A novels that will be published in 1936. Though critics have never yet put Elizabeth Bowen on a par with Virginia Woolf, they may yet rank her ahead...
Granting that progame predictions aren't worth much more than the paper they're written on, and then only if the paper isn't of especially high grade, we hereby go out on the limb and predict a Harvard victory in the Quadrangular Meet in the Garden tonight. Cornell, Dartmouth and Yale should finish in that order after the crimson runners if nothing comes along to upset our calculations...
...turns are mean and the grade is steep and fast. A peculiarity of this trail is that the hardest part is at the bottom, when the racers are all tired...
...standing around as background for the youngsters, the older members of the cast steal the show for themselves. If this turn of events surprised Playwright Riggs, Playwright Riggs, hitherto noted for poetic horse operas like Green Grow the Lilacs, simply flabbergasted Broadway by revealing an unsuspected talent for Grade A comic characterization...
Disciplinarians the world over took heart last week from the action of the school board of Edmonton, Alberta. Concluding a discussion of unruly pupils, the board decreed that henceforth they shall be whipped with straps of a standard size. For pupils in Grade 6 or higher the strap shall be 16 to 19 in. long, 2 to 2½ in. wide, ⅛ to ¼ in. thick. For smaller bottoms, smaller straps...