Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavy ai planes were taught from 1942 to 1944 in Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Arthur Casagrande's School of Soils Control. Also set up was a Civil Affairs Specialists Training Program, conducted by Professor Carl J. Friedrich's School for Overseas Administration, under which men up to the grade of colonel were trained in military government procedures...
...across Hudson Bay in 1814 and then portaged to the rich Red River Valley, agriculture has been king in Manitoba. The valley's rich, black velvety soil had been the magnet which drew colonists. They hugged the area close to the U.S. border, grew Canada's best grade wheat (No. 1 Manitoba Northern Hard) and other grains in enormous quantities...
...team in the U.S. is Champaign (Ill.) High, whose boys start learning their peculiar brand of fire wagon play in the city schools' fifth grade. When Champaign brought home the state championship, the team was mounted on fire trucks, driven down streets crowded with fans...
Then Manhattan-born Frank Toscani, a grade-three clerk in New York City's Department of Sanitation before he went off to war, began to find embarrassed frustration as well as wonder in his shadow. Both stage & screen showed Joppolo carrying on-though not quite carried away by-a love affair. Joppolo also countermanded a stupid order by a general, and got transferred for it. Worst of all, Frank Toscani felt that the shadow was not sharing his huge earnings with anybody but Writer Hersey, Playwright Osborn, Producer Leland Hayward and the Playwrights Producing Co., Inc., and Twentieth Century...
...last week, Ecuador's excitable Francisco ("Pancho") Segura was all but blown off the slippery court at Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory. Then Pancho, who feels very badly when sports writers call him "the best Grade B player in tennis," steadied down. With his two-handed drive, he whipped ferociously at every ball he could lay his racket on, cheered himself after good shots with a "Bravo, Pancho." In the next three sets, he trounced onetime U.S. Singles Champion Don McNeill (still rusty from Navy duty), became the first South American to win the U.S. Indoor Singles...