Word: grading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Eva Mae Bradbury started school near the little Kansas wheat town of Ada (pop. 150), she happened to be the only one in her class. She sat in with the second and third grades and wished that she might soon skip a grade, or that a new family, with another child her age, would move into the neighborhood. She kept on wishing...
...that isn't all. At present, if the student manages to pry his bluebook from a Department, he finds only his grade on the cover and a lot of cryptic figures in the margins. Unless he can persuade the instructor to go over the examination with him, he still has no way of knowing what was good and what was poor in his paper. Part of self-education is to profit by one's own mistakes. Seniors in particular, preparing for General Examinations, can benefit enormously by reviewing old bluebooks. In other words, the same technique used by conscientious section...
...restless Lester Pfister, the revolution was a long time coming. A farm boy who quit school in the eighth grade to work in the cornfields at $30 a month, he has been inbreeding and crossbreeding corn since 1925. Neighbors, watching him tie paper bags over corn tassels and ear shoots to control fertilization, called him "Crazy Lester." To keep up his experiments he mortgaged everything he owned. When depression hit, he stalled off bankruptcy only by ducking meetings of his creditors. One day he went to an El Paso bank to plead for a last-ditch loan. Unwrapping a newspaper...
...Window (RKO Radio) gives a modest but impressive view of how well Hollywood can do, if it tries, on a grade B budget (under $750,000). One of the last jobs done for RKO by Executive Producer Dore Schary before he joined MGM, it combines a neat story by Cornell Woolrich, competent playing by twelve-year-old Bobby Driscoll and four relatively unknown actors, and some expert camera work in the brownstone jungles of Manhattan's East Side tenements. Smoothly mortised and joined by Director Ted Tetzlaff and Producer Frederic Ullman Jr., The Window emerges as a fast little...
...Were Strangers. Director John Huston's fling at a Cuban revolution; a better-than-average melodrama, but grade B Huston, with John Garfield and Jennifer Jones (TIME...