Word: grading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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School: Maryland youngsters leave school, on the average, at the end of the ninth grade. Most thought their education had helped them enjoy life, but three out of ten believed it had not helped them much to earn a living. Yet the fact is that the high-school graduate is paid 50% more than the youngster who did not finish elementary school...
From Berlin last week came news that technicians of Siemens & Halske Co. had developed a ''super-microscope" with a magnifying power far surpassing that of ordinary high-grade instruments. To obtain its supermagnification, the German instrument uses beams of electrons instead of waves of light...
...budget, covering 58 planned features, allows for but one million-dollar film, Men with Wings. Paramount's most important trend will be toward romantic U. S. history, with Union Pacific and The Texans. Other specials: If I Were King, with Ronald Colman; Knights of the Round Table; The Grade Allen Murder Case...
...search of quick return best method is for each student to leave in his blue-book an addressed postcard, which the instructor in the course can fill our and send to him as soon as the grade is determined...
...first time since mid-March The Annalist index of wholesale commodity prices moved upward. High-grade bonds continued a steady improvement begun six weeks ago. The stock market after a 1½ month long irregular rise notable even in the depressed railroad and public utilities, stood still-but odd-lot traders, who have been buying against the trend, suddenly switched to selling...