Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consent of the appropriate Department, in any other course, a choice between an hour examination or other appropriate test, to be given after the April recess, and the final examination. The final examination shall be required of any candidate who takes the hour examination but fails to receive a grade of C or higher...
...school morning last week in Salt Lake City, the corner of Ninth South and Eleventh East Streets was as busy as usual: scores of cars rushing city workers downtown, busses carrying students to nearby grade schools, junior high schools, the East High school, the University of Utah. Sidewalks were thick with children...
...department worker, drove his twelve-ton street-roller around the curve, headed down toward the busy intersection. As usual, he shoved the gearshift into reverse. But the gears failed to mesh. He set the brakes, but already the twelve tons of steel were rolling, gathering speed down the steep grade toward the jam of cars, busses, children...
...Violinist Eddie South. Of all the performers only three had sponsored berths in radio: Eddie Anderson, the Rochester of the Jack Benny show, Band Leader John Kirby and Comedian Eddie Greene of Duffy's Tavern. Obvious is the reason so few have made the aerial grade: they are Negroes...
...that darkness the battered, drained and dry-wrung people of London still reveal their incredible fibre. They have endured Puritanism, mercantilism, industrialism, sinking physically, among the nations of Europe, from the first grade to the third. But Europe's once strongest stock survived the plagues and the Great Fire, and it now turns the worst rage that modern war can wreak into just another trial to be confronted. In confronting it, Londoners have rediscovered their chief racial faculty, once wild, now disciplined: a casual, bottomless courage...