Word: grading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ranging in age from 26 to 48, in mental age from nine years plus to 18 years. The average mental age was 15, which is higher than that of the adult population of the U. S. (13 years 6 months). Only two, however, had had schooling beyond the eighth grade. One of these had two years of high school and the other quit college during freshman year...
...that Representatives might rest their legs as well as their jaws when they shuttle through the tunnel next year. Commented Missouri's Congressman Joseph B. Shannon: "I've seen many members who had reached 70 or 72 years old, and they just couldn't make the grade. I think it hurried them to their graves...
...Chicago's vast Coliseum, the American Bowling Congress was rolling into the sixth week of its 1938 session -to determine five-man, two-man and individual U. S. bowling champions. The local "booster" teams had already accomplished their chore of breaking in the brand-new, slippery alleys, which Grade A bowlers dislike. Some 19,000 approved A.B.C. "keglers,"* from every State in the U. S., had bowled their required three games (in each event entered), had posted their scores and gone home. No one had bowled a perfect game.† No team had come within 100 points...
...Swan Lake; a "reproduction" of the Currier & Ives skating print; the appearances of Toronto's Louise Bertram & Stewart Reburn (the Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers of skating), of Comedian Eric Wait with his absurd walking stunt, of 83-year-old Skater Oscar L. Richard, who can still cut a Grade A outer edge...
...urged caution in the sterilization of both the feeble minded and maniac depressives. Feeble minded persons are often good citizens and quite harmless, he said. They are useful in performing low grade work that a more intelligent person would not undertake...