Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such grind as the old College Boards, the new tests measure two qualities: scholastic aptitude (skill in reading, problem-solving, etc.) and "general achievement" (a short-answer test of knowledge in certain fields). Advantages: both can be taken in a single day and they are easy to grade...
This year mid-year grades will not be mailed to the upperclassmen and dropped Freshmen. Instead, grade slips will be made out for these students, who can call for them at the Information Desk, 4 University Hall, about two weeks after the opening of the second half year...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., now on active duty with the Navy, was promoted from ensign to lieutenant, junior grade...
Tough-minded Walter Hershel Beech, 48, looks like an oversized Bing Crosby. He never got through the seventh grade but has an amazing knack for machinery and aerodynamics. After five years in the Army Air Corps (1917-21), he joined Lloyd Stearman and Clyde Cessna (both of whom later formed their own companies), started Wichita's Travel Air Co. to make small planes. Travel Air boomed with the air craze of the Twenties...
...public-school teachers of America. It is also a sensitive portrayal of a youngster (Douglas Croft) who honestly adores his pretty, understanding teacher (Claudette Colbert). Based on Philo Higley's and Philip Dunning's 1935 Broadway play, the picture will remind many a U.S. grownup of his grade-school days...