Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professors with combined classes could not be present at the beginning of the tests to clarify instructions and answers about test material. "This is an important consideration in a matter as important as an examination," she said. "The time lost could mean a significant difference in a student's grade...
...turn to slush. In spite of the slush, young Muscovites turned up coated and booted in several of the city's squares where wooden platforms had been laid for dancing. The gala occasion: the 30th anniversary of Russia's Komsomol (Young , Communist League), the elite, junior grade, of the Soviet Union...
...Second-grade pupils were learning a poem which summed up much of Western Germany's mood: "Speckled autumn moves through the country with long steps and mighty hand. It bends the slender trees and it rustles the stout ones. Then the ripe apples and pears and apricots come tumbling down. The boys and girls shout: 'Hurrah, Uncle Autumn is here...
...years since her graduation from Vassar, Miss Mac has known quite a few jobs, ranging from a teacher in grade school to wartime director of the WAVES (TIME, March 12, 1945). At 36, she was Wellesley's second youngest president. University presidents, resigned to each other's ponderous speeches, always perk up when trigger-quick Mildred McAfee Horton gets up to speak. Her best-known dictum justifying girls' schools against the advocates of coeducation: "It is easier to be scholarly when the boy friend is an event rather than a habit...
Chosen on the basis of their grade in these trials and the regularity of their attendance at rehearsals, the successful choralists will also travel to Bowdoin on December 4. Two days later they will join the Bowdoin Glee Club in a concert at Portland, Maine...