Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South, as well as their own regions, intelligence is in the minority, and that, by a sometimes faulty axiom, the minority is right. Foreseeing a possible run of cancelled subscriptions, the redress of trodden toes, I say such a move is the mark of the subscribers' grade of intelligence. They do not deserve to read TIME...
...love"' cultist; he is an ascetic. His soft manners, his kindly eye, his intense, humorless and uncritical idealism, his obsession with the struggle of Labor and Capital for the fruits of Industry mark him for the archetype of old-fashioned Socialist. Yet the Socialists have outgrown him and Grade A radicals believe that if EPIC is given a trial, its failure will set U. S. radicalism back 50 years...
...thousand feet under the Mecsek hills near Pecs, 1,200 miners picked wearily last week at the poor coal that is Hungary's best. On the railroad sidings above were 15,000 unsold carloads of their low-grade handiwork. The mine owner, Danube Steam Navigation Co., largely British-owned, had done its best to spread work, a few hours a day per man. But that came to only $2 a week. These Magyar miners and their families were starving. It had come to the point last week where their mouths watered at sight of the fat little pit ponies...
...above the average student taking the course. If assignments are given which will take a man receiving a high C or low B about six hours a week, there will be no cause for complaint among the undergraduates because those men who have sufficient ability to obtain a higher grade will not think the course too easy to be worth the time taking it, and the men who are under the mark will have to work but not so much that all other activity is excluded. For other activities are important because of the contacts which will remain throughout life...
...with special reference to the State of Tabasco, whose Governor is named Canabal. In Tabasco, according to Father Kenny, children are caused to learn about sex by viewing the matings of dogs, horses, cattle. In one case a bull was labeled "God," a cow "Virgin Mary." Said he: "Primary grade pupils in Tabasco were forced to strip naked, boys and girls, as part of the sex education instruction. . . . Not only this, but both in Tabasco and Mexico City groups of primary pupils were taken to maternity wards by their teachers to watch actual parturition. Some of these hapless children went...