Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poor Easter trade; a big New York pork plant closed last week, and hog prices sank to their lowest level ($19.50 per 100 Ibs.) since OPA's end. Because of abundant grain for feeding, this year's beef was also coming down, and was a better grade than last year's. At $24.60 per 100 Ibs., good steers were $1.50 below a month ago. Even lamb, forced to an alltime high partly by heavy losses in the winter storms, was slipping again in Chicago markets last week...
...junior year a two-part exam consisting of three questions to be chosen from four major chronological and geographical areas. True to its tradition, the department sees to it that one of the three questions must be on a pre-1700 topic. Men not attaining a satisfactory grade on this exam are dropped from the honors program...
...writer from the Russian zone has been smuggling out his replies through friends crossing the border in Herlin, although so far he has received American letters uncensored. He is a student who tutors grade-school science during off-hours in his small East Baltic town; he says any belief that the German people are capable of governing themselves is a "joke." The student, who refuses to allow his name to be published because of possible punishment by Russian occupation authorities, cites the Welmar Republic, under which "the German country, with her 65,000,000 inhabitants, was not able to find...
...There is a great deal of criticism in the cloakrooms . . . There is a feeling that the Democratic forces are cracking the whip . . . There are some of us who happen to be prima donnas enough to object . . . We are not going to be treated as grade-school children by a strong schoolmaster who says, 'If you don't do what we tell you to do we are going to take you out into the woodshed...
...Louie Hoff, music instructor for Lincoln County schools: "He isn't the biggety type. He's still the same nice kid." Mrs. Ocie J. Smith, who has taught school in Hamlin for nigh on 40 years, says: "Land sakes! Why, when I had Charlie in the third grade, he was a little slow. I never dreamed he would grow up to be traveling around the country so fast. He used to sit in school daydreaming, and I always suspected he had his fishing pole hidden out back somewheres." In high school Chuck speeded up some. Miss Gonza Methel...