Word: grading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state that the Prophet Joseph Smith found no hidden gold. He did. He found the gold plates upon which the Book of Mormon was inscribed. . . . The symbols found on them were no more mystic than written French to a fourth-grade American schoolboy. Magic Spectacles which you mention [are] undoubtedly the Urim and Thummim, an affair which was worn on the person, much as a telephone operator's mouthpiece, and which is not to be confused with the seer-stone...
...began the enterprise with his brother, Daniel Rothenberg, in grammar school, but he bought out his partner in the eighth grade for a couple of marbles and a quarter. The fowls represented were purely domestic chickens, turkeys, and ducks until he went overseas with the American Field Service in March...
...First-grade texts, he says, use about 2,500 words. The figure was arrived at by counting the words one set of children used over a two-week period. But, argued Seashore, a kid uses words as the occasion demands. Had he gone to the zoo during that two-week period, he would have thrown in what he knew about animals. If he looked at a picture magazine or listened to a radio serial during that time, he might have used words that would not otherwise occur to him. The modern kid uses a lot of words picked up from...
Some films that made the grade: House of Dracula, Dick Tracy v. Cueball, Gilda, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Outlaw. Explained a Library spokesman: the selections were not necessarily the year's "best," but they "most faithfully record in one way or another, the contemporary lives and preferences of the American people...
Brute Force (Universal), a Mark Hellinger production, stars Burt Lancaster, but is not otherwise to be compared with Hellinger's The Killers. The Killers may have been hammy, but it was grade-A ham, so adroitly served up that the picture got on several of last year's ten-best lists. Brute Force is a prisoner of all the old jailbreak cliches. There is the decent but weak warden (Roman Bohnen) who can't control his mild but maniacal head guard (Hume Cronyn), a sadist who plays Wagner while softening up a prisoner with a rubber hose...