Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have just read the letter by Ann Gardner. I have been reading TIME since I was six. I am seven now. I have just been promoted to the fourth grade...
...Brazil, which gets 58.49% of the U.S. quota, surplus coffee is still being systematically burned (54,000 bags last month). Yet Brazil's standard grade, Santos No. 4, has nearly doubled in price since last August. Colombia (19.8% of the quota), producing valuable special grades, raised its minimum prices nine times last winter. Brazilian growers and speculators, with 2,300,000 bags of quota coffee still to ship, are holding it back, waiting for still higher prices. Meanwhile shipping space is getting scarce and ocean freight costs are mounting. Brazil is also toying with the idea of setting...
Banned from North Carolina schools last week was a fifth-grade history (Jule B. Warren's North Carolina Yesterday and Today) adopted last winter by ex-Governor Clyde R. Hoey's administration and recently denounced by scholars (TIME, April 28). An investigator appointed by Governor J. M. Broughton found more than 1,000 factual errors in the book...
About a year and a half ago Ulsterman Louis MacNeice, who has written an Irish lion's share of grade-A contemporary English verse, came to the U.S. to earn a quiet living and see what he could...
Against the Army's new requirement of the equivalent of a fourth-grade education in its men, Second-Grader Alvin C. York, 53, No. 1 hero of World War I, protested...