Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this is well-known, the movement for public sex education has gone slowly, necessarily from the higher branches downwards. Last week there came evidence of its present situation. Willard Walcott Beatty, superintendent of schools in Bronxville. N. Y., wrote for the New York Times an account of the seventh-grade course which has been given in his schools for the last five years...
Parents are informed beforehand of the nature of the course; children are urged to carry home the classroom discussions. Parents and teachers, reports Superintendent Beatty, find Elementary Biology useful; many believe that it should be taught sooner, in the fifth or sixth grade...
Last week, however, Dr. Harriet Babcock was perfecting such a gauge at the Manhattan State Hospital. Primarily she intended to grade the progressive mental deterioration of paretics. Converse result was to mark the clearing up of all befuddled minds. Vocabularies provided her with a clue...
Competition has reduced prices. Recently Manhattan's West Side shops cut the price of Grade C gin to 75?. Some of the East Side shops followed. At others the price has remained $1 and $1.25. Grade B gin is 50? more, Grade A 25? above that. The grades vary little in taste. Prices depend to some extent on the location of the shops; chiefly on overhead- rents and "tips." Rents usually vary between $50 and $200 per month; shopowners are unwilling to say how much it costs them to remain unmolested. Profits are not exorbitant. One gallon...
Last week's quotations at a cordial shop near fashionable Sutton Place: Gin- Grade A, $2. Grade B, $1.75. Grade C, $1.25. Rye-William Penn $2.50 (pt.), Silver Dollar $3 (pt.), Overholt $4 (pt.), Butterham & Worth $4.50 (pt.). Scotch -Ambassador $2.50 (pt.), King George $2.50 (pt.), Johnnie Walker $4.75 (qt.), King George $4.75 (qt.). Port-$2.25 per quart. Sherry-$2.25 per quart. Grain Alcohol-$9 per gallon. Imported Cordi-als-$4.50 per bottle. Beer-$9 per case of 24 pints...