Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...close to collapse: ¶ In 20 Alabama counties 85,762 rural children have no schools to go to, 2,500 teachers no place to teach. Rural schools in 16 more counties may close any day. A few schools are kept open by parent subscriptions-$5 per half-year for grade pupils, $7.50 for high-school students. ¶ Chicago school teachers last week were threatened with a 14% cut on their still-unpaid salaries. ¶ New York City school teachers grudgingly took pay cuts averaging 6% to 7%. In the municipal budget other savings are scheduled by closing three teachers...
...Grade: That's all right, George. I have to give him a bath anyway...
...Grade (coquettishly) : Oh, George, I'll bet you tell those things to all the girls...
...easy to understand why the professor should sometimes adopt the procedure he does. He believes that by so doing he prevents those who have gone to the tutoring bureaus from getting a good grade in the course. But the evil connected with the system is that if he has delivered a killing blow to the Widow's patrons, he may at the same fell swoop, have hurt those average students who have been steadily working during the term...
Regarding domestic matters, the bond market spoke its disbelief in the likelihood of inflation or devaluation of the dollar, its confidence in low money rates. High-grade issues forged ahead even when the inflationists were speaking their loudest in Washington (see p. 12). Many good 5% issues sold above par and second-grade bonds jumped more rapidly than stocks. Transactions were on a large scale and many recent sessions resulted in over 100 new highs. Early this week all bonds, including Governments, were faltering a little. Altogether bonds on the Stock Exchange gained $1,500,000,000 in value since...