Word: grading
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Contes a Nanon," Guyde Maupassant's somewhat vile anecdotes, and Balzac's "Contes Drolatiques" being its progenitors. And as of the short stories, so of the novels. Balzac seems to me the first novelist who could dissect a woman. Defoe tried to analyze a woman of the lower grade in Roxana, and Peregrine Pickle is such another monument of failure. But it was Balzac who first traversed this dark - or should I say fair - continent...
...Schleier of Constance, becoming convinced of the commercial necessity of a language to be spoken by all nations, invented Volapuk, the etymology of which is based on French, German and Latin. There is but one declension, one conjugation, no article, no grade; and all prepositions govern the accusative. The conjugation of verbs is somewhat elaborate, but it is without exceptions. Volapuk has already been adopted in various parts of Australia, Syria, Germany and America. In Paris it is taught in thirteen institutions, and there are five newspapers published in it. We are quite prepared to believe the statement of Volapuk...
...Grade B to include all having at least 78 per cent and less than...
...Grade C to include all having at least 60 per cent and less than...
...Grade D to include all who pass with less than 60 per cent...