Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even his wife knew. He had gone to public school, served in World War II and was a successful businessman. But at 33 he still could not read. At last he sought help from New York University's Reading Clinic. Last week he was deep in a first-grade reader, and had just experienced one of life's biggest thrills-figuring out the sign on the subway train: "Please keep hands off door...
...Atlanta, state legislators learned that an old law required locomotives to go toooooooot-toooooooot toot-toot when approaching Georgia grade crossings, brought it up to date and in conformity with the laws of adjoining states by authorizing toooooooot toooooooot toot-toooooooot...
Although he was described as being "very happy that there are more high-grade dance schools coming into the business," Arthur Murray-whose 80-some schools now gross $22,000,000 yearly-cut his rates from 10 to 20% at week's end, to "celebrate," said he, "our 33rd anniversary...
...prepare for hour exams. And finally, many members of the Faculty, working within the constrictions of the war-shortened semester, find that the necessity for giving hour exams further reduces their lecture time, as well as burdening either themselves or their assistants with myriad and superfluous blue books to grade...
Your editorial entitled "Low Grade System" seemed to me an entirely wrong approach of the problem. It represented an attempt to patch up a system which badly requires complete overhauling. As an external prod to effort, grades offer a cheap substitute (and an ineffective one at that) for the only incentive worth having: the student's interest and eagerness to learn. The student whose prime motive for studying is the attainment of good grades is not worth the College's time, anyhow...