Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...triple blast of land artillery, air bombs and shelling from ships opened. Sappers went out to grade the tank ditch and kill land mines. Tanks poured through, wagging their tails of infantry behind them. Some Aussies crept ahead under cross-curtain of tank and machine-gun fire to cut barbed-wire entanglements. Then the full power of attack brushed past pillboxes, deployed back and crushed them from behind. That accounted for the outer semicircle. For the inner, the process was the same. By noon both had been broken. By sunset the attackers had pushed eight miles to the heights looking...
...blue book: "I know nothing of the North American Fisheries and less about international law, but I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll give you the fishes' point of view." He did, and his blue book was so funny that the professor gave him a passing grade. --Christian Science Monitor
...Committee of Examiners, whose names have not been revealed, has also been organized to prepare and grade the examinations. Replacing the nine or ten who collaborated in past years, this group of three consists of one permanent officer of the University, one faculty instructor, and one annual instructor...
Stowell will also work in the 50 with either Ted McNitt or Dave Stearns as his partner. Tom Godfrey and Tom Shrewsbury are the other ranking sprint men. Bob White, Roger Wilcox, and Max Kraus are having a three-cornered fight for the two breastroke the grade and if Senior star Art Bosworth returns to the foil, the Ulenmen will have a strong duel meet squad...
...cantonment orders hit the lumber markets (particularly southern pine & Douglas fir). In two months, the price of yellow pine timbers jumped 27% and stayed there-although the Army's ordering was finished in one week. By December, each week brought a new markup in a different type or grade of lumber...