Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...native Canadian to head the company, has taken good care. Cocky, busy, he is a familiar figure all along the right-of-way from Halifax to Vancouver. But last week his great company was forced to admit that, temporarily at least, it has not been able to take the grade of Depression at full speed. After a long meeting in the grey Windsor Station, Montreal, last week the C. P. R. directors filed out slowly, grave in the knowledge that they had ordered only half the regular dividend payment. What was a 10%, rate...
...profession, last week formally stated that it wants lifted all laws which restrain physicians from imparting birth control information; and that medical schools and hospital clinics should teach contraceptive methods. Argument: contraception, long a fact and now a spreading practice, should be placed under highest-grade medical control...
Critics paused before a well constructed, firmly drawn portrait by the club's treasurer, grey-haired, dapper Stanley Adams Sweet. Treasurer Sweet in private life is president of Sweet-Orr & Co. (overalls), generally recognized as the first company to market a high grade, tailored overall. Treasurer Sweet has no false ideas of his own prowess as a painter, but insists that his membership in the club has been invaluable in showing him the technical problems that great masters have had to overcome...
...sight, visceral activity, body position, temperature and pain pause a jiffy on their way to the thinking part of the brain. When one has a general feeling of discomfort, his tweenbrain is trying to tell his main brain an incoherent story. Vague emotions reflect the tweenbrain's mentally low-grade activities. Stomach "nervousness" must also have some relation to the diencephalon, for it to some extent controls digestion and other vegetative processes...
Temperature. The chart of the U. S. oil giant's condition is a price chart. In California last week came the third drastic price-cut in three weeks. High-grade California oil sells in Los Angeles now for 35? a barrel against $1.48 at the start of the year. Mid-Continent oil is selling at 53? against 81? at the first of the year. Last week gasoline stocks reached a new high for the year of 47,444,000 bbl. against 42,818.000 bbl. Jan. 1 and 55,239,000 bbl. a year ago. Refineries were operating...