Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...becoming increasingly important from reading the above paragraph that mature men and women should have some knowledge about birth control and the many causes of divorce. Also they should know something of the effects such differences as age, class, grade, religion, occupation, politics, hobby, color, and sex have upon marital relations. Since every one of these factors has a great bearing on the success of failure of a marriage, expert information on such subjects ought to be available to college students...
...Derby) in 1908 and Helen Taft (Manning) in 1910 were the last three girls to "come out" in the White House. Last week that mansion was again turned upside down for a debut. The lucky girl was Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt-daughter of her brother Grade Hall Roosevelt by his first wife, now Mrs. John Cutter of Dedham, Mass. She had already had one debut in Boston and observed frankly that coming out is "a racket, but a pleasant...
...laborious ascent of the single-track over the Manti-queiras. Near the town of Stio came catastrophe. Again, someone had blundered, for thundering down the mountain through signals came a heavily laden freight. Headlight to headlight the roaring freight and the snorting passenger train met. They disintegrated over the grade like kindling. Soon fire crackled through the broken sticks and torn bodies...
...this contest in Chicago." Two days later Honest Harold Ickes visited Chicago, expressed his regrets to his would-be drafters ("I know you wouldn't want to kill me"), broke ground with a silver drill for the Chicago PWA-financed subway, ran out to Winnetka to inaugurate a grade-crossing project...
...Luck, Wis., day before the Midvale smash, a Soo Line train drove into a school bus at a grade crossing, killed the woman driver and three children, critically injured five others...