Word: grading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peronistas and opposition alike respected Bramuglia's integrity, his open dealing. Foreign diplomats found him easy to see and thoroughly a man of his word. Peron liked to boast that Bramuglia was exhibit A in the story of how a poor man could make the grade under his regime...
Even Deutsch's statistics are horrifying: 125,000 persons enter mental hospitals in the U.S. every year; 1,000,000 children now in grade schools will spend some time in state mental hospitals before they die; the 190 state hospitals cost $200 million a year; total cost of mental illness in the U.S. (including loss of pay, services, etc.) is about $1 billion a year...
...crushed his right leg last spring, and freckle-faced Leadom Beatty, 14, has been laid up in bed ever since. But last week he was "back" at school, hooked up from his bed to the sixth-grade classroom at Houston's Fannin Elementary School...
Last week the school board's Committee on Hand Washing and Drying Facilities, formed to look into such matters, made a triumphant report of progress: the city had set aside $100,000 to provide soap and paper towels for 143,000 kindergarten and first-grade pupils. Could the 740,000 other unwashed New York City youngsters, from second grade to senior high, look to a cleaner, brighter future too? Said the committee's secretary guardedly: "We have hopes...
...thriller. Their immediate fascination and influence were enormous. Charles Dickens' low-life reflected their high-spots, Wilkie Collins refined their eeriness. The young J. M. Barrie struggled unsuccessfully to write penny-dreadfuls long before he took refuge in the arms of Peter Pan. Robert Louis Stevenson made the grade with his story, The Sea Cook, which was published as a juvenile thriller under the more appealing title of Treasure Island...