Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nimble, he still stands impressively erect to his full 6 ft. 2, is remarkably healthy. He still bubbles with new ideas for his publications, over which he maintains the vigilance of a whimsical despot. His newspapers are still wild-eyed, red-inked, impulsive, dogmatic, often inaccurate, and littered with grade-A, boob-catching circulation features. Currently Hearstpapers are making lurid attacks against "Stalin's Monstrous Double-Dealing," and are promoting "Total Warfare Against Japan . . . NOW." But Hearst personally has mellowed in his declining years, if his press has not. A recent edict of "advice to reporters and editors" said...
...York's Daily News last week reported: "Hitler's errand boy, General Francisco Franco, has taken out of the port of Philadelphia more than 200,000 gallons of high-grade petroleum products within the last week." Standard Oil spokesmen said that permission for the shipment had come from the State Department. The State Department said that the permission was based on thorough consideration, added that the shipment (in a Spanish vessel) consisted of lubricating...
Mica, which laymen know as isinglass, is mainly used in peacetime as a nonconductor for electrical equipment. When war hit the Far East, almost everything about mica immediately became a military secret. Reason: most high-grade mica comes from India, and without it no tank, ship or airplane would be of much use, since mica is essential for radio condensers, and there have been no acceptable substitutes...
Radcliffe students will continue to receive instruction in separate classes at Radcliffe. However, a policy has been in effect for many years by which certain Radcliffe students have been admitted to some courses of advanced grade at Harvard. This policy was broadened a year ago as a result of war conditions. Under the new arrangement more Harvard classes may be opened to Radcliffe students. This does not place either college in the category of a coeducational institution...
When the military psychologists approve, prisoners of the first grade are released for good conduct and sent back to soldiering, but not with the same units they came from. If pending legislation passes, "graduates" who have been sentenced to the most severe soldier's penalty short of death (dishonorable discharge and loss of citizenship) may have both set aside, start off brand...