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...first institutions to install this boon to the academic world was Purdue University where these pictures of the grader in action were taken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Machine Grades Exams | 4/26/1938 | See Source »

Married. Clara Johns, 24, elder sister of Charlie Johns, the Sneedville, Term, hillbilly who four months ago married Third-Grader Eunice Winstead, 9 (TIME, Feb. 8); and Herbert Winstead, 17, Eunice's elder brother; at New Hope, Tenn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 31, 1937 | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...Sneedville, Term., lanky Hill-Billy Charlie Johns, 22, married blue-eyed third-grader Eunice Winstead, 9. Reverend Walter Lamb said he had performed the ceremony on a lonely road when they accosted him, told him that "if I didn't marry them some one else would." For a wedding present the groom gave the bride a doll. Said Eunice's mother, who had another daughter married at 13 and is herself a grandmother at 33: "I haven't brought up my children to marry what men has got, but to marry for love." Said Tennessee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Kelly | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

Maybe you did get a little warm, but then who wouldn't get burned watching them stand up there being stubborn, all about a little old oath that even a first grader could memorize like nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SERVICE WITH A SMILE | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...aimed to master the intricacies of accounting, 23% ranged in academic ability between the average seventh-grader and the high school junior. To the study of electrical engineering, architecture and chemical engineering, only 20% of the Minnesota aspirants had brought high-school training. More than one-sixth had not finished grade school. Considerably less than half of the would-be advertising men, lawyers, executives had finished high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sharks, Suckers, Flying Fish | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

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