Word: grading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Postmaster. But one era's highway is apt to be the next era's rut: Ben Hibbs found the magazine freighted with 8,500-word "short" stories, long "bootstrap" opuses on Men Who Made the Grade, a rather-be-right GOPolicy that wasn't confined to the editorial page, an audience that had grown old with Lorimer. Two weeks before Hibbs took over, the price went up to a dime. Hibbs and his 29-year-old managing editor, Robert Fuoss, set out to capture a younger audience with women in some of the seats. (Lorimer...
Sound Reasoning. In Buffalo, the City Court denied Landlady Anna Kaitz the right to evict Hyman N. Barden because his snoring sounds like "a locomotive pulling freight cars up a grade...
...boxlike. Pigtailed scholars play hopscotch outside its walls, and butterfly collections hang unnoticed beside crude crayon drawings in its corridors. Each room has large portraits of Lenin and Stalin. "What's the difference between them?" a TIME reporter asked a first-grade class. An eager little girl answered: "Lenin is dead. Stalin...
Francis Cardinal Spellman, already an honorary Osage Indian Chief, made the grade with the Sioux, was inducted into the Oglala Tribe as Wambli Ohitika (Chief Brave Eagle...
...much more convincing. At nine, soon after her arrival in the tough world of North America, she wrote her first novel-a story of the persecution of the Christians by the Emperor Nero. By twelve, she had done a novel about the French Revolution. She also attended grade school. But father Arthur Caldwell, who was a commercial artist, disapproved of pampering and educating women. When his daughter was 15 and had just finished a biography of Christ, he put her to work in a bindery...