Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Personality" Dr. Edwin G. Flemming of Manhattan wondered what traits in a young girl moved others to say: "She has personality." He had some high-school teachers grade 84 girls on personality and on a long list of character factors. He discovered that to be ranked high in personality a girl should be: interesting in conversation, competent, a person of wide interests, intelligent, athletic, a good sport, sincere, adaptable. He also found eight personality types: the entertaining, the brilliant, the culture-talented, the just, the pretty, the good fellow, the good neighbor, the diplomat...
...where his employer taught him the game, gave him mounts when he improved sufficiently to go to Meadow Brook. The 10-goal handicap he got last winter was the reward for his performance in the first East-West series. Elmer Boeseke, the other 10-goaler, is the biggest high grade U. S. poloist: 6 ft. 4 in. He played on the 1924 Olympic team which lost to the Argentines in Paris. Eric Pedley, whose j handicap was reduced from 9 to 8 two years ago, is still considered the best No. 1 in the world. He is the same...
Only one New Dealer from the 73rd Congress-Representative Disney-won his renomination in the first primary. Three others, Schoolteacher Willie Rogers, who campaigns as "Will Rogers," Schoolteacher Wilburn Cartwright and Lawyer Jed Johnson finally made the grade in last week's runoff. Discounting retirements, personal fights and local issues, the fact seemed to remain that in Oklahoma support of the New Deal by no means guaranteed a Democratic politician success at the polls...
...hardboiled newshawk (Robert Armstrong). When the reporter slaps her face, she disguises herself by dyeing her hair, takes a job on his newspaper, maneuvers him out on her father's yacht so she can ridicule him to her friends. Suddenly she decides she loves him. Designed for second grade theatres and double feature programs, The Hell Cat is better entertainment than most Hollywood trivia of its class...
When peace was restored the conference approved "in principle" its committees' plan for a course in sex and family education to last from first grade through college. A few delegates made reservations. Director Lyman Lloyd Bryson of California Association for Adult Education feared that "the tendency toward over-intellectualization of sex education for children has robbed the sex process of emotional drive...