Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past, many U.S. teachers have resisted "visual education." One difficulty is making a film which will be equally intelligible to a first-grade city kid in Manhattan and a farm boy in Opportunity, Wash. A more redoubtable objection comes from teachers who believe that films are just another devil's device to take away the personal touch in education...
...this adds up to a top-grade movie; it will be a long while before another one like it comes to the screen...
...began getting second-grade, left over and plain trash roles. She was done out of a long-promised chance to play Emily Brontë. She went to Broadway and enjoyed herself thoroughly in a play by Irwin Shaw (Sons and Soldiers). The fact that it flopped sent her Hollywood stock still lower...
...first-class condition but "sterilized" (frozen out of competition), some 2,100 ships of dubious value either kept in a "Residual Reserve" or scrapped. Most of this latter class, presumably, would be Liberty ships, which the Harvard group called uneconomical. (Shipping men consider them economical for hauling low-grade, no-hurry cargoes...
RendÓn's first formidable program included twelve points. Since then he has added 125 more. Some of them: 1) congressional candidates must be able to produce certificates of grade-school attendance; 2) the Mexican constitution should be rewritten in verse and set to music; 3) anemic Mexican Indians shall be painted a healthy red to please the tourists; 4) the money stolen by labor-union leaders shall be used to buy coffins for the poor; 5) so that all may be equal in death, Mexicans shall be buried under a standard-model tombstone...