Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco got its first Negro grade-school principal, in charge of a teaching staff and a student body of Negroes and whites...
...without being examined in the admission tests for in College Board examinations in some previous year): Chemistry, Physics, French, German, Latin or Spanish. These examinations should be taken, whether or not the student plans to take courses in these subjects in college. Any Freshman or Sophomore who received a grade of 594 in any of these foreign language placement tests or in any foreign language test given by the College Board after 1941 will be considered to have met the Language Requirements (see statement of Language Requirements in official pamphlets...
Going down grade making 90 miles an hour When his whistle began to scream (Whoo! Whoo...
...Bureau mounts its diamonds (which must be more colorless and flawless than good grade jewelry stones) between two small brass contacts. One contact is charged with 1,000 volts of electricity. When an alpha, beta or gamma ray hits the diamond, it knocks an electron off one of the carbon atoms of which the diamond is composed. Propelled by the pressure of the 1,000 volts, the electron darts along one of the straight channels which run between the atoms of a diamond crystal. This motion sets up an electrical pulsation that can be detected easily by various standard instruments...
...Kindergarten and first-grade enrollments were bulging with the first war babies to reach school age. Babies who passed their infancy in these hectic times, warned an Ohio psychologist, are apt to be jittery about such a violent novelty as school. Dr. Clare W. Graves of Western Reserve University advised parents to watch for such signs of nervous tension as mouth-tugging and hair-pulling. After a couple of weeks in school, kindergartners are apt to go on talking jags; the only thing for parents to do then, said Dr. Graves, is to grit their teeth and listen sympathetically...