Word: grading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scooped deep into the earth. At week's end, under a crisp, blue sky, a couple of dozen Madelinot workmen stood around with mining engineers and newsmen to watch a diamond drill bite into the cocoa-colored rock. At a depth of 49 ft. the drill hit high-grade ore containing about 53% metallic manganese. With 40,000 tons proven reserves, and 140,000 more probable, it looked like a good thing for the island, and Quebec Manganese Mines, Ltd. Every ton of hardened steel requires an average of 14 lbs. of manganese, and most reserves...
...Taft didn't make the grade, he knew "no better man than Douglas Mac-Arthur...
...believe in the capacity of the state to plan and enforce an active high-grade economic productivity upon its members or subjects. . . . I am sure that this policy of equalizing misery and organizing scarcity, instead of allowing diligence, self-interest and ingenuity to produce abundance, has only to be prolonged to kill this British Island stone dead. We are told, and I am told, that we Conservatives have no policy. . . . Here is the policy: establish a basic standard for life and labor and provide the necessary basic foods for all. Once that is done, set the people free...
...Individual education could be dealt with more significantly . . . if we removed the entire mechanical engine of credits, grade points, formal examinations and required courses. This arithmetical approach . . . values accuracy and correctness above imagination...
...years as counsellor for Veterans behind him. After leaving his Indiana high school, Bender worked at various jobs on the New York Central, including section hand and caller of crews for departing trains. For two years he went to Goshen College; then followed a stint as a grade-school teacher, before his arrival at Harvard...