Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, soon after Private Kinman was promoted to technician fourth grade. Western Reserve University offered to see him through medical school. T/4 Kinman, who has had only three years of high school, was so stunned at the news that he had to sit down...
Dark Waters (United Artists) has all the makings of a first-class thriller and now & then seems likely to become one. But the grade-A eggs it breaks never quite make an omelet...
...south low-grade German troops had been caught holding the forts, the passes and the river lines, and apparently with few mobile reserves. They made only token defenses of Metz, Strasbourg and Belfort. No doubt Bradley had scheduled the start of Patton's push a week ahead of the Cologne offensive on the chance that Field Marshal von Rundstedt might shove reserves into the southern breaches. Rundstedt did not yield to this incitement. Instead he crowded more men, fire power and armor into the sector east of Aachen...
...career started in Montclair, NJ. where Dorothy, fired with theatrical ambitions, began dancing and singing lessons when she was scarcely out of grade school. A brother played the trumpet and two sisters were pianists. A great aunt, Catherine Hayes, had sung opera in London, Rome and Vienna. Her grandfather, James J. Beggs, had toured the world as conductor of Buffalo Bill's band, and had been one of the founders of New York's Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians. Dorothy's two sisters gave up their careers for marriage, and her trumpeter brother ended...
...Nova Scotians now out of the services, fewer than 100 have shown interest in the Government's offer of technical training or general education. In all Canada-only 5,000 veterans were now at school, despite the fact that the average Canadian serviceman never got beyond the sixth grade...