Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years the first name on the Senate's alphabetical roll-call, he always responds with vigor, starting off proceedings with a flourish. Aside from his career on the Judiciary Committee and in spite of his long service, he is neither a Grade A Senator like Borah or Wagner or a Grade A Democrat like Robinson of Arkansas or Byrnes. Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a loyal, picturesque party politician of average intelligence, who sounds better than he really is. His term expires March...
Frances M. ("Robbie") Robinson secretary-assistant to NRAdministrator Johnson: This new day offers abundant opportunity to our secretaries. . . . The door is open. It is up to the women to make the grade. . . . Pull is the bunk. Push and merit are all that count...
...waterfront barkeep in Texas City, Tex., Jimmy Wedell got no further in school than the ninth grade. A boyhood motorcycle accident blinded his right eye. Mechanically inclined, he ran a small garage, saved enough money to buy a second-hand plane which he learned to fly in one hour. Barnstorming around the Southwest took him to Patterson where he met Harry Palmerston Williams, Louisiana lumber tycoon, husband of one-time Cinemactress Marguerite Clark...
...dominate and have their will over the weaker." Some specific accusations of code evils: Most hotels and many contractors use Grade B, slightly damaged plumbing fixtures, a large part of small manufacturers' output. Under the plumbing fixture code, dominated by three leading companies. Grade B products can now be sold only for export. Smalltime lead-pencil makers generally retail their product under 5?. Most popular color for lead-pencils is yellow. Big pencil manufacturers inserted in their code a provision prohibiting the manufacture of yellow pencils to be sold below 5?. All coffee roasters insert "filler" into their packaged...
...this latter case the fans will watch the unusual sight of a duel between two Grade. A pitcher-captains. Both Parker and Loughlin have seen carrying about 75 per cent of the pitching burden on their respective outfits this season and both are quite a stretch ahead of the No. 2 men, their understudies. Bernard Rankin, a Sophomore will probably be Parker's alternate...