Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inescapable conclusion from this glorification of juvenilia was that the younger you are, the better child art you are likely to produce. At about junior high-school age, or sixth grade, many of the child painters had turned imitative, muddying the pure well of crudity with inhibited attempts to be artistic. But under this age, the hugely scrawled and brightly colored pictures done by little boys & girls showed a splashing freedom of imagery and sometimes a direct seizure of character. They also showed frequent resemblance to the art of those moderns who distort for the sake of design...
Vigilant & Firm. Meanwhile Grade A taunts were hurled at the Prime Minister in the House of Commons...
...rates are based largely on the contention that an additional burden of $35,-000,000 a year was added to their operation expense this fall by (1 the corporate surplus tax, 2 wage increases, 3 increased steel costs, 4 safety measures to comply with State and Federal regulations, 5 grade crossing projects...
...Chancellor Carmichael: The South has so few universities offering first-grade graduate work that many of its best brains go north to study, never to return...
...Buswell found that bad readers get worse 1) the more they read 2) the more firmly fixed their bad habits become. In his group, only 11% of the adults who had stopped school at the sixth grade could read as well as present-day sixth-graders. The professor thereupon set out to invent improved methods of teaching adults to read. Chief advance over the system of Dr. Stella Center at New York University's reading clinic (TIME, Dec. 6), was the use of a motion picture film that flashes successive phrases on a screen, to guide the eyes along...