Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Litman owes his promotion to his Grade A showing against West Point, while Wells has finally emerged as a halfback after starting the season at quarter. He will take the place of Franny Lane, who is the only first-string man now on Doctor Thorndike's casualty list. There is no possibility of Lane getting into the battle tomorrow...
...children would not take their naps this afternoon," says the Mrs. The Chewy goes at the second turn of the starter and I'm out over the cattle guard and the culvert over the first irrigation ditch. Over a second, third and fourth, all graded as the ditch beds are above the valley here. Now to step on it. First mile gone, slow down for another grade culvert, the second mile nearly a straightaway. Indian wagon raising an infernal dust is soon past. A glance to the left at the sun setting over cotton fields and scattered palms, bare...
...member of the McKee slate was using the Blue Eagle insignia on his campaign literature. General Johnson promptly ordered the practice stopped. Inquisitor Samuel Seabury, stumping for LaGuardia, declared that McKee had drawn up cor poration papers for a realty concern, then voted as a city official to grade the street passing the company's premises...
...constructed an elaborate and circumstantial grouping of ambiguities, with frequent mention of the two words in the question. Then he handed in his paper, and walked away, somewhat down in the mouth. When the paper was handed back, he was astonished to perceive that it had received a grade of nine out of a possible ten; the figure nine, he affirms, was written in a puzzled and trembling hand...
...lower price . . . than purchasers competitively engaged in said line of commerce, and also by giving and allowing Sears, Roebuck & Co. certain secret rebates or discounts ... in the form of cash and valuable stock bonuses. "This discrimination in price has not been made . . . on account of differences in grade, quality, or quantity . . . nor . . . in the cost of selling or transportation . . . nor . . . in good faith to meet competition...