Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...system of "dry run" exams has been set up for first-year students. Mid-term exams, graded by teaching fellows, will be given in all courses, but only the finals, which will be graded by the faculty member teaching the course, count toward the final grade...
...Rogers, city health officer, went into action. The slaughter of nylons, he decided, was probably caused by acid-laden soot from low-grade fuel...
Normally, sterile bulls are sold as low-grade beef. But Rupert was an exceptional case. Wayne Fox of Des Moines heard about Rupert's problem, and offered his good offices. Fox and his wife took over, and put Rupert on a diet to" thin him down to 1,200 Ibs. They had a theory that he was so "overfitted" that his sexual hormones were lost...
...seems that Lionel Barrymore, an old whaling captain, can't take his grandson, Dean Stockwell, back to sea unless the latter passes his fourth grade examinations. Master Stockwell fails them, but a sympathetic principal fixes up the mark, thus permitting the boy to ship over. This takes care of a quarter of the film. At sea, there is a struggle between the old captain and the young first mate over the education of the boy, plus a few adventures with whales and icebergs, which are covered so quickly and superficially that one wonders why the directors bothered to fill their...
...years to work off and prices would tumble. Demand did fall for the poorer wool used in making soft fabrics, which fewer & fewer buyers wanted. But everyone wanted hard worsteds. The unexpected demand cleaned out the fine-wool stockpile (but left the U.S. with a stockpile of low-grade wool) and caused demand to run far ahead of supply...