Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spain was weltering last week in a revolution which experts had to certify as absolutely Grade A. Its authentic qualities of mass upheaval reduced to secondary stature both the government leaders and the revolutionary generals. The Spanish Government, a regime of Socialists, Communists and rattlebrained Liberals had emptied the jails of cutthroats to defend itself and swell what could be called "forces of law and order." These forces included an indefinite part of the Army. Other Army units had gone over to generals of loosely Fascist forces in which were scrambled most of the Spanish Foreign Legion, parts...
Roguish Girl, Ah, she's a pearl With feet as swift and true- As the legs of any ewe; I'll tell you boys she's here to win, And from now on it looks as if You will be drinking the better grade...
...refreshing type, brought him a Hollywood contract. Since then We're in the Money, Page Miss Glory, If You Could Only Cook, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and six other major pictures have been improved by his unvarying but authoritative version of the Manhattan sophisticate, hoodlum grade...
...vegetables, raw meat, a diet which Mrs. Schuyler claims is largely responsible for her daughter's precocity. At two Philippa amazed the neighbors by reading, writing her name, spelling 150 long words. At four her spelling is up to pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoniosis.* She is keen at mathematics, reads fourth-grade books, writes poetry, draws and paints, turns out neat letters on her father's type writer...
...Virginia first diggings fortnight ago showed the tubers to be so small that the Department of Agriculture was asked to reduce minimum Government standards for No. 1 grade potatoes from 1⅞ in. in diameter to 1½ in., which would make No.1 grade equivalent to what Nos. 2 & 3 were last year. Crop damage cut the period of Florida shipments, which began in March, from the usual two months to five weeks. The flow from South Carolina stopped fortnight ago after moving only half as long as usual. The Department of Agriculture has not yet estimated this year...