Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Lee Collins liked the looks of the shoe business. His father was foreman in a shoe factory and St. Louis was a shoe town. So Willie Collins left school after the eighth grade and went to work for International Shoe Co., neatly inking the edges of soles for $3 a week. Last week, at 36, as he settled down to his new job as president of Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co., oldest in the Middle West, the shoe business still looked good...
...Valino and José Varela, each in charge of one of the three prongs of the Valencia drive. Last week General Varela's Castilian Army Corps won a signal victory by capturing heavily-fortified Mora de Rubielos. The Rightist Armies continued in a swift advance down a steep grade, capturing Barracas, 3,000 feet above the sea, nearing Viber, 1,500 feet high, threatening Segorbe, 900 feet...
...Belgium's Count Henri de Baillet-Latour, president of the International Olympic Committee, announced that the 1940 Olympics would be awarded to Helsingfors, the Finnish city whose bid had been outvoted (36 to 27) at the committee meeting in 1936. Peace-loving Finland, a land of Grade A athletes, including Runners Paavo Nurmi, Hannes Kolehmainen, Gunnar Hoeckert, has never been host to the Olympics, was last week planning a modest program in keeping with the ideals of international amity...
Seven months ago Alfred joined the class and began turning out pictures at the rate of three a day. He ran home from P.S. 42, where he was in the fourth grade (he would have skipped a grade except that he got scarlet fever), drank a glass of milk, and hurried across the street to paint, using an old muffin tin for a palette. "His talent," said his awed teacher, Philip Bibel, "is accompanied by the most amazing energy I have ever encountered.'' He painted cowboys, G-Men, scenes from movies, elevated trains, football players, his playmates, views...
...these, Eileen's role is slight: she is pretty, pursued by boys and at 13 the belle of the Epworth League, the sensation of the eighth grade. Ruth, however, with her stutter, her ability to play baseball, the social ostracism that followed her brilliant performance in the Northern Ohio Debating League, was cut out for trouble. Not entirely given over to girlish recollections, My Sister Eileen is weakest when it approaches slapstick, as in accounts of Father McKenney's washing-machine business; funniest when Author McKenney recalls the simpler sides of old Ohio life-newspaper serials, silent movies...