Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Adolf Hitler marched into Soviet Russia, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya quit the tenth grade of Moscow's 202nd Secondary School and joined a guerrilla band. Hair-cropped, in men's clothes, tall, 18-year-old Zoya proved an apt recruit: before the Germans captured her, she had cut a German field-telephone wire, fired German troop quarters, destroyed a 20-horse enemy stable...
...matters are often useless. What the Army needs is courage and resourcefulness-both, said he, plain products of a good education. He further shocked the delegation when he told them that the college-graduate soldier did not have as good self-discipline as the soldier of high-school and grade-school level...
...High-grade iron ore deposits in Utah...
...Much U.S. ore, either low-grade or in small deposits, is untouched because no hitherto commercial methods* of treating it have been developed. Ickes proposes to turn small scattered iron-ore deposits into sponge iron by the gaseous reduction process, smelt the sponge iron in electric furnaces...
...wants pilot plants to test other noncommercial methods of treating low-grade copper, lead, zinc and other ores. He wants an electro-development laboratory in the Bonneville and Grand Coulee district to experiment with the local geology...