Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Admittedly, accommodation is unobtainable at the first-class or de luxe hotels in London, but I have found little difficulty in accommodating the type of passenger desiring this grade of hotel, in service apartments where he will find an equivalent degree of comfort at rates within comparatively reasonable limits...
...take a two-year leave from her duties as an Elmira, N. Y., high-school mathematics teacher because she was expecting a baby. Two months after her blue-eyed son was born, she unsuccessfully demanded to be put back to work. Although she is now teaching in a grade school, her lawyer husband Anthony has carried through the New York courts a suit for the pay she would have earned during her compulsory leave. Last week he carried it for the second time to the U. S. Supreme Court, which again refused him a rehearing...
World capital of the sport of figure skating is London, which has six indoor rinks to New York's two, and an amazing number of high-grade figure skaters. The women's figure skating championship of the world was held in London in 1928 and again last week. Winner in 1928 was Sonja Henie, in the second year of her ten-year career as the world's ablest woman skater. Last spring Sonja Henie stopped skating in tournaments to skate in the cinema and last week's winner, heir to Miss Henie's title...
...leeway for passing in work ordinarily done at preparatory school is two years, and the pass-word is a C in one of the adequate courses or a good grade for an exam given three times a year. Thus for two years the axe of probation is sheathed while the student is presumed to be taking the courses he needs. If there is another year of grace given and if the student's work fails to pass the exam a third time, he must clutter up his Senior year with an elementary language. If there are to be language requirements...
...Washington's Birthday, 1918, weighed only 8½ lb. at birth. He began to grow fast at once. At six months he weighed 30 Ib. Year later he weighed as much as a normal six-year-old boy. When he was six years old and in the first grade he had to put on long pants because the biggest boys' suits (size 17) were too small...