Word: grading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Follette-Kohler campaign was bitter enough to split families, break old friendships. Governor La Follette had tackled the Depression with a relief program involving higher taxes on wealth, made work in the form of grade-crossing eliminations. His opponent's campaign slogan was "Cut Costs with Kohler." Harping on economy Candidate Kohler flayed the grade-crossing program as "La Follette roller coasters," warned that the La Follette tax program was driving industry and business from Wisconsin...
...been the boast of an acquaintance who likewise took History 1 as a Sophomore, that an honor grade might be attained with little or no attendance at lectures. The close parallelism (or perhaps a better term might be found, for parallel lines never meet!) of the lectures and reading make much of the work pure repetition. Only a very few exceptions, notably Professor Webster's masterpiece on the History of Modern Britain and the British Empire, discuss tendencies and movements, thus introducing a spirit of life which cannot in the nature of things be derived from readings alone. And surely...
Information given us at various times on our many travels by those in authority in many places in foreign lands always placed violet-tinted white jade as the highest in grade and value. A few of these places where it was seen were: the Emperor's Museum in the "Forbidden City," Peking (now Peiping), China (time, about 11 years ago), finely carved Buddhas and other ornaments; Mandalay and upper reaches of the Irrawaddy River, Burma, India, bead necklaces, etc.; Tibet, lama's hand prayer wheels...
...Berkeley near Chicago. Mr. Hurley, a co-receiver for onetime Insull properties, was attending a directors' meeting of Central Illinois Co. when he was told of his wife's injuries. He reached his wife five minutes after her death, resolved on an investigation of the Illinois Central grade crossing where a locomotive hit Mrs. Hurley's La Salle convertible coupe, dragged it 300 feet, seriously injured her daughter and son-in-law, Attorney William A. Ryan. Died. J. Frank Zoller, 54, General Electric Co.'s tax attorney, foremost U. S. breeder of Brown Swiss cattle; from...
...very pleasant. The cheerful natives, amazingly handsome, dressed for hot weather, have all the paraphernalia of civilization except machines. They spend the morning marketing, chatting, weaving, carving statues, attaching gold leaf to bolts of cloth, swimming, raising rice, flying kites with prodigious, sarcastic tails. Main event of a high-grade Bali day is a cremation, preceded by dances, bull races, prayers. Corpses of dead Balinese are placed in ornamental towers mounted on floats to be carried about the island. After a cremation, the ashes are scattered...