Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Newell Converse Wyeth, 62, onetime star pupil of Illustrator Howard Pyle and a famed mural painter and book illustrator in his own right, whose colorful, romantic depictions have given many Americans their conceptions of such fictional and legendary figures as Long John Silver, Deerslayer and Odysseus; in a grade-crossing accident near Chadds Ford, Pa., in which his three-year-old grandson was also killed...
...famed general, Bayan of the Hundred Eyes, and forgets the haughty girl at home in favor of the harem slave, Maryam, daughter of a fraternizing English crusader and his Grecian love. Author Costain's romantic actors are hardly more three-dimensional than characters in a high-grade comic strip, but the elaborate 13th-Century stage sets are well painted...
...Grade Fields, bouncy British music hall favorite, decided that she had done enough (or almost enough) cartwheels to last a lifetime. "At 47, I am too old to swing my legs around," she announced to Bombay newspaper reporters. Next stop: Rangoon...
Artificial insemination has many advantages. On the average dairy farm a bull is dangerous, expensive to keep, and his capacities are rarely put to full use. It is obviously simpler to call a veterinarian and have him serve the cow with one cubic centimeter of high-grade semen in a gelatine capsule or a special syringe. Membership in a typical breeding association costs only $5 a year, plus $6 a year per cow (which entitles each cow to three services a year if necessary...
...rich Lake Superior region, the steam shovels are biting close to the bottom of the vast open-pit iron ore mines, including those in the famed Mesabi Range. Within 17 years the steel industry will have to depend on low-grade iron ores...