Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Past (RKO Radio) is a medium-grade thriller about a not-very-smart young man (Robert Mitchum) who is hired to hound down the runaway mistress (Jane Greer) of a hard guy (Kirk Douglas). Mitchum finds the girl, sets up housekeeping with her, and lets himself in for no end of melodramatic consequences. Fairly well played, and very well photographed (by Nicholas Musuraca), the action develops a routine kind of pseudo-tension...
Confirming the fact the the United States can readily supply the food, clothing, machine tools, seeds, and breeding stock with "just enough sacrifice to make us feel good," Mather nevertheless warned that limited supplies of petroleum and high-grade iron ores severely limits the prospect of aid in this line...
...facts are that four teachers were given the test. . . . One of the four made a score of 20, the average for the four was a grade of 67, which would mean that the other three made an average of 83. So you see 9,000 Colorado schoolteachers were being judged as to their knowledge of history on the basis of a low score by one teacher...
...completely losing their heads. For this Antony is so much better than Broadway's burnt veterans dared expect that they could be excused for thinking it better than it is. It is good; but it has limitations and even weaknesses. It exhibits almost every grade of acting. It could sometimes be grander, and sometimes more exciting; and it could many times do better by Shakespeare's language...
...developed in Los Angeles by Dr. Henry Borsook, Caltech nutritionist. To soybean grits (the material left over after the beans' oil is extracted), Dr. Borsook added minerals, synthetic vitamins, flavoring materials and hydrolyzed yeast. The mixture looks like speckled, light-buff cornmeal. It has twice as much high-grade protein as beef, and more vitamins. It lacks vitamin C (unstable to temperature changes) and is low on calories. But two ounces of the stuff, supplemented with leafy vegetables and a little bread or potatoes, provide a full, balanced meal. The cost: 3? per 2-oz. portion...