Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schoolchildren. Of all the agents, none paced the floor more nervously than those of Manhattan's Harcourt, Brace & Co. and Chicago's Row, Peterson Co. Everyone knew that the fiercest schoolbook contest of the year in Texas was between these two, for the adoption of a seventh-grade history...
Largest single purchaser of textbooks in the U. S., Texas buys books for all elementary schoolchildren in the State, spends some $2,000,000 a year. Its "adoption" of a book means it will buy that book exclusively for five years. Of seventh-grade histories, it was estimated, Texas would purchase some $234,000 worth all told...
...this particular prize, two publishers began to prepare a year ago. Harcourt printed a revised edition of its best seventh-grade history. Row, Peterson entered the lists with Building Our Nation. For twelve months Harcourt's young agent, P. K. Burney, a former high-school principal, drove furiously night and day over Texas' vast distances, covered 50,000 miles, wore out one car and bought another. Like the two agents of Row, Peterson, Paul Baker and Raymond Franklin, Agent Burney visited teachers, principals, superintendents and members of the State board to win friends for himself and his book...
...pass. In every class there are a certain percentage of gentlemen who prefer to loaf, or let other people do their work for them. With men of this breed the College will, and should make short shrift. Also there will be a few who are incapable of making the grade at college, no matter how hard they try. These, also, will feel the first tickling of the knife about their necks at the current "Hours." But the rest should find no particular difficulty with the tests, and it is to be hoped that each man does as well...
...cares to express an opinion on the subject or not, the country is nevertheless on the brink of another business recession which bids fair to be the equal of the 1930 secondary slump. The stockmarket, the most obvious barometer, though not necessarily the best, has been on the down grade for many weeks, and although the break in prices is not yet entirely reflected in the production indices, that is simply because manufacturing companies are still filling orders born of summer optimism. Car loadings are just holding even, and after the unusually large farm crops have been moved there seems...