Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rejuced aftherwards, but, no matther, I was a Corp'ril wanst"). Last week the U.S. Army announced, in effect, that no Mulvaneys were wanted. After their three-year enlistment, regular privates will not be allowed to re-enlist unless they are worthy of promotion to higher grade (i.e., noncommissioned rank) or have specialists' ratings...
...Elected as president (without opposition) plump, middle-aged Mrs. Myrtle Hooper Dahl, a Minneapolis fourth-grade teacher. Mrs. Dahl's platform: U.S. children should be taught to 1) hate tyranny, 2) love...
Clarinetist Pete Davis ' moves out of Manhattan's 46th Street into a series of low-grade dates in Pennsylvania in the early '20s, winds up with a topflight, ill-paid hot outfit in Chicago. His pianist brother Frank sticks to the seaboard; his greater talent and his tameness betray him into the venal successes of the "swing" rage. Between the two of them they cover most of the salient features of jazz and Jazz-living among white musicians. There is some sore stuff on that corrupt necessity, the musician's union, and an interesting passage about...
...encouraged research and experiment in the use of alternative processes for the production of aluminum from low-grade bauxite, or other sources such as alunite. In fact, it discouraged them. A report recommending alunite as an aluminum source was prepared by the Bureau of Mines more than six weeks ago. OPM has not yet acted...
...them get up and walk, but many just lie there. Hope's view of it, after running a tank into the colonel's car: "Me trying to be a corporal! I'll be lucky if they don't try to take away my citizenship." Grade-A Hopeism, after the tank accident: "Terribly sorry about...