Word: grading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasonably priced, reasonably clean living quarters. At least 3,000,000 families have no place they can all their own home, and 10,000,000 more are living in rickety shanties or slums,--in the breeding grounds of vice, crime, and disease. And instead of being on the up-grade, housing starts have dropped from 100,000 a month in the fall of 1946 to a meager 42,000 in March...
...Miss Aline Neal was his favorite teacher. Eddie said he liked Miss Neal because she "never sent any of us to the principal's office." In fact, he liked her so much ("and she's so pretty") that last spring, when Eddie was promoted to the fifth grade at Duling Public School, he asked the principal to promote Miss Neal...
...Midwesterner by birth like Dean Hanford, he earned his college education by teaching grade school and by working as a railroad hand. He studied for two years at Goshen College, Indiana, transferring to Harvard and graduating...
...long ago a retired Westchester County, N.Y., high school principal wrote to F. D. Pratt in response to a letter she had received from him as TIME'S circulation director, asking whether by any chance he was the Francis DeWitt Pratt she had taught in third grade in Schenectady, N.Y. She felt there was something vaguely familiar about his handwriting...
...domestic wool at a fixed price. But Australia, which is much more efficient at sheep-raising and must sell wool or go bankrupt, sold to U.S. manufacturers at a lower price, in spite of the tariff wall. Combed U.S. wool was priced at $1.20; combed Australian, generally a finer grade, was sold at $1.09, which included 34? tariff. U.S. manufacturers bought Australian wool while U.S. wool piled up in Government warehouses. Last spring the warehouses were stuffed with more than a year and a half's supply...