Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grade-A Dietitian. To reduce the number of ifs in food, Washington last week got a new initial-agency, Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard got a new job, and the nation got a dietitian...
...have at hand the 1941 Navy Register, but I believe that the proportions in the 1940 Register are substantially the same, except for some 350 naval aviators appointed into the regular Navy from the Naval Reserve during the fiscal year 1941, most of them in the grades of lieutenant (junior grade) and ensign. . . . The figures as of July 1, 1940 . . . [indicate] that Academy graduates number 94.9% of all line officers...
...Francisco. Willis T. Geisman's family lives in an upstairs flat on Ramona Avenue. His father owns the building, rents out the downstairs, works in the basement as a photofinisher for neighborhood drugstores. Willis was his father's assistant through grade and high school, went to the University of California, went to Alaska as a Government photographer. He joined the Marines in 1940, was stationed first in Shanghai...
...winning the national grade-school spelling bee in Washington last week, eleven-year-old Richard Earnhart of El Paso, Tex. got $500 and a two-day trip to New York City. There he had his first brush with the metropolitan press, came off winner, hands down, over a flabbergasted World-Telegram reporter...
...under study a scheme to give "the functionally illiterate" basic training in reading, writing and arithmetic. Most offensive to a nation proud of its educational standards were the States of Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. More than 30% of their populations, aged 25 and older, have had fourth-grade schooling or less...