Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus and father of ten, Candidate Shinners is expected to draw a strong Catholic vote. He is also backed by the American Legion and the Nazi Friends of New Germany. Asked whether it is true that he never got past the fourth grade in school, he replies, "I'm still going to school." Though he admits that municipally-owned public utilities might be practical in small communities, he wants no reform in Milwaukee...
Meanwhile the Federal Trade Commission was bringing suit against Bethlehem Steel Co., American Sheet & Tin Plate Co. (U. S. Steel Corp. subsidiary), and 13 other steel concerns for refusing to sell a cheap grade of tin plate to tin can manufacturers. According to the Commission, little tin can makers could not afford to buy the better grade of plate used by American Can and Continental Can, with the result that the steel men were creating a monopoly for the No. 1 and No. 2 U. S. can makers...
Eighteen-year-old Teresa Hawkins was overjoyed when the business school of Fairmont, W. Va. gave her a 100% grade in shorthand fortnight ago. To celebrate, she and two school chums went to the cinema. There Teresa, for no funny reason on the screen, started to laugh. Her friends, unable to stop her, took her home. Her father, unable to stop her, drove her to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. The doctors, unable to stop her, sent her to West Virginia's State Hospital at Weston, where last week she lay shaking every 30 minutes with newsmaking paroxysms...
...over huge ore deposits near Climax, Colo., a little railroad station perched atop the Fremont Pass at an altitude of 11,000 ft. Gold diggers had discovered the deposits, thought them graphite. Even after they proved to be molybdenum no one was particularly excited because the ore was low-grade (8 lb. to the ton) and Scandinavia and Australia, with small reserves higher in metal content, could more than supply what market there...
English A is one of the most maligned courses in the university. Being compulsory for all who fail to attain a grade of 75% in the English entrance examinations, it has lost none of the stigma attached to any course vitiated by an aura of compulsion. Such a course by no means presents a simple problem to its instructors, for students expecting to be bored by the repetition of grammatical rules bring to the course no interests of their own. In view of these facts, it might be well in justice to English A and its instructors to reconsider...