Word: grading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herald & Express and the Detroit Times. Four made less money last year than five years ago in the deep of Depression, and six showed circulation losses since 1932. Most conspicuous loser was the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which has shown operating losses every year since 1929. Definitely on the down grade is the Chicago Evening American, which used to be one of the big Hearst moneymakers. However, 1936 was the best year in history for the American Weekly, in both circulation (5,700,000) and operating profits...
Harvard, too, has no Freshmen who have been able to make the grade and get on the first eight. Way back las winter Bolles selected a Varsity crew composed entirely of experienced men, and he hasn't changed that crew once. It was quite a remarkable job of picking, and the result is that the boat that has been working together so long with none of those disturbing changes in personnel has developed into a powerful, smoothly functioning unit...
...where Powell joins Market Street, San Francisco's "main stem." Passengers scurry for seats while the gripman and conductor swing the tiny car on the turntable until it faces uphill. Then with a great clanking (gripmen traditionally play tunes on their gongs) the car rolls up the sharp grade, past the swank Fairmont and Mark Hopkins Hotels while the conductor collects 5?-fares (conductors traditionally make wisecracks. Sample: "Conductor, do you stop at the Fairmont?" "Gosh no, lady, not on my pay."). Down one side of the hill the car presently slips, while gripman and conductor heave at brakes...
...French Secret Service on what happened in Addis Ababa following the bomb attack on Italian Viceroy Rodolfo Graziani (TIME, March 1). This may or may not have been the real "lowdown," but it made interesting reading and is typical of French finesse in acquiring the goodwill of top-grade foreign correspondents by giving them a peep to ease their heroic curiosity...
Standing by the window in a fifth-grade classroom upstairs was John Nelson's brother Don, a 24-year-old oil worker who was watching over his mother's class of 25 youngsters. He heard a loud noise. Plaster started falling. He thought for a split second of the window. Then two or three of the children started running toward him. He herded them out into the open fast. Out in the schoolyard, Don Nelson saw the ground littered with bodies. Two men ran up to him and they crawled back into the ruins together. A heavy bookcase...