Word: grading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While he was working on the section in July the Cuban Government, "for relevant and humanitarian service," bestowed on Mr. De Besa the Decoration of Honor and Merit Grade of the Comendador. the same Cuban kudos given last month to Mrs. Ogden Reid, the publisher's ex-secretary and present wife, who runs the New York Herald Tribune...
Those gloomy novelists who talk about one out of every 500,000 being able to make the grade are complimenting themselves on their own genius...
...entertainers have ever had the success on Continental stages of honey-skinned, good-natured Josephine Baker. Born in St. Louis 30-odd years ago of an allegedly white father & a colored washerwoman, Josephine's education stopped with grade school. At the age of 14 she was already hoofing in second-rate St. Louis vaudeville houses, where she met and married one Billy Baker, a tap dancer who brought her to New York and eventually found her a job in the chorus of the No. 2 road company of Shuffle Along. In Philadelphia, fame came to her one evening when...
...Prize of $100 was won in competition with the 17 undergraduates who actually took the examination of the 30 who had registered. Fifteen papers were described as "distinctly of passing grade" in the official announcement...
...powermen but Mr. Carlisle's and the President's cordial dislike of each other is something of a record, dating as it does from pre-New Deal days, when Franklin Roosevelt was Governor of New York State, Mr. Carlisle's bailiwick. But now, with a Grade A business recession on his hands, the President, like Mr. Hoover in 1929-30, is anxious to persuade the great utilities industry to cut loose with a big construction program which would stimulate heavy industry (TIME...