Word: grading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Juan Bautista has no movies, only three stores. Streets are mud lanes, and there are no hotels. The single school-house takes pupils only through the third grade. The islands have no doctor...
...after seven years in the city, he "went on the cops." He attended the school for recruits, made the grade, and was assigned to a night beat on the Brooklyn waterfront. For the next seven years, he wore a cop's uniform. He learned many things: that it was 'often more sensible to let a drunk sleep under a signboard than to haul him to the station house; that it was always wise to whistle for aid before tackling trouble. Once he waded into a gang of roistering sailors, slipped in the snow, was beaten to a pulp...
Willy Messerschmitt, who built airplanes for the Nazis but claims he never really liked the Nazis, half-convinced an Augsburg denazification court of his dislike, got off with a fine of 2,000 marks as a Nazi "follower"-the fourth and lowest grade offender...
Psychologists classify a moron as one grade above an imbecile, two above an idiot. He has a mental age of eight to twelve, an I.Q. between 50 and 70. How does he get along, or does he? Dr. Ruby Jo Reeves Kennedy, sociologist at the Connecticut College for Women, made a survey of 256 morons, decided that in these days of full employment, the moron is generally employable and doing surprisingly well for himself...
...Enough? In Cleveland, Mrs. Rose Koenig graduated from the eighth grade, but decided not to go on to high school, now that...