Word: graded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Daughter Ishbel decided to buy and run the 300-year-old Plow Inn hard by the official country home of the Prime Minister, Chequers-a piece of Scottish shrewdness which practically ensures her a steady clientele of statesmen just below the grade of those invited to sleep or eat at Chequers, but who must go there and will be delighted to patronize Boniface Ishbel...
...weeks ago when a Lynn teacher ordered her third-grade class to comply with Massachusetts' new patriotism laws and salute the flag, 8-year-old Carleton Nichols Jr. swallowed hard, remained in his seat while the class rose. "Please, Miss Brooks," he blurted, ''my father says I am not to salute the Devil's emblem." Carleton Nichols Sr. explained that as Jehovah's Witnesses he and his son could not serve both Jehovah and Country. Jehovah's Witnesses, otherwise known as the International Bible Students Association, count 2,500,000 followers in 34 nations...
...trailer were stalled on a very steep grade in the Rushmore National Park. I had been stuck there all night and early in the morning there came bounding down the mountain two nattily dressed young men whom I later found to be employed on the memorial which is being carved on one of the lofty mountain peaks. One of them was the son of the sculptor himself* and he recognized our plight on the roadside and when he found out who we were he said, "Well, well, I have just been reading about you," and he picked from the seat...
...York City's Public School No. 44, has brooked very few failures in his 34 years. As his biographer, Alva Johnston, has pointed out. Rose has become one of the shrewdest characters in the cut-throat life of the metropolis by sheer quickness of thinking. He won grade-school medals for sprinting by learning to jump the starter's gun without detection. Later Rose's instinct for what pleases the masses made him one of the most successful song writers of the times, turning out the words for such tunes as Barney Google...
...Dahlgren, botany curator of Chicago's Field Museum. Although the expedition had the earmarks of a happy combination of pleasure and publicity, Johnson's President Johnson announced that he would search for new growths of carnauba palm, whose leaves supply the basic substance of high-grade wax and polish...