Word: grading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME of Feb. 28 prints an article about Grade Fields in which the following is stated: "Miss Fields last year received a reputed $750,000 for being both undignified and vulgar." The word vulgar constitutes a grave injury to Miss Fields, her friends and public in England, where she is greatly beloved as your article states. I am a great admirer of TIME and know that it does not intend an affront but in England the epithet used will have a different implication and will have an injurious result. I have received a protest from Miss Field's manager...
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (Universal). A stratospherical chapter of the 15-piece adventures of the fearless Flash, this is a Grade A cinemedition of the famed King Features strip. Chesty Flash (Larry Crabbe, onetime famed Olympic free-style swimmer) works desperately to save humanity on Earth from destruction by a nitrogen-destroying lamp erected on Mars...
...Pelley's eye was the fact that when President Roosevelt finally held his long-promised railroad conference last week he pointedly neglected to invite J. J. Pelley or any other working railroad man to attend. Puffing in their wrath like Hudson engines on a 2% grade, the A.A.R. directors retired to Chicago to match Franklin Roosevelt's conference with one of their...
...order that something may go down in the books, "a grade of 'satisfactory' will be accepted by the Dean's Office instead of a definite letter grade," it was announced in a notice sent to instructors last week. In such cases as there is no record of a student's work, the grade of "satisfactory" will be automatic...