Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patent of immortality that dates back to Cardinal Richelieu. But many of France's greatest writers have been barred from the academy for reasons that had little to do with their greatness. The academy's mythical "41st chair," reserved by legend for those who never made the grade, has been occupied by such greats as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose loose living and houseful of illegitimate children were too much for the academicians; Encyclopedist Denis Diderot, who was a deal too outspoken; and plump, ill-dressed, Bohemian Honoré de Balzac, who seemed just too much of a mess...
...limit of 300 bushels on the amount of new wheat it would accept from any farmer during the harvest season. But the harvest could not wait. In the finest autumn weather in years, giant combines cut wide swaths through fields of standing wheat, spewed out rivers of top-grade grain. Commercial elevators were soon chockablock. Farmers braced old sheds to withstand the fluid pressures of loose wheat, built new barns to hold the flood, and when all the sheds were filled, piled their wheat in amber hillocks on the ground. When the harvest was in, Canada's supply...
Promoted by the American Heart Association, this principle is now being applied nationally through 48 state-federal programs. Classification units grade the patient's capacity for work and such items as his emotional status and especially anxiety about his heart. They also grade the demands of the jobs available, try to fit workers to jobs. Labor unions and industry groups are backing the effort. Some employers shy away because of compensation problems, but the problems have no medical basis: heart cases are more safety-conscious than other workers, likely to be steadier and more reliable. Properly job-graded, they...
...toppled from her position as the leading star on Broadway by an ambitious newcomer. This plot seems pretty ironic now, because much the same thing has actually happened, and to two of the actresses employed in this film. Bette Davis, who played the slightly sodden and sinking grade dame, retired shortly after she finished the picture. But a young girl who made her first movie appearance in All About Eve has since then become a sort of national symbol. Her name is Marilyn Monroe...
...grade school, Joe joined the 4-H Club, which, like the Future Farmers, has trained many a fine young farmer (the 4-H Club, with membership of more than 2,000,000, differs from the F.F.A. mainly in taking both boys and girls and in not being tied so directly to high school vocational agriculture). Joe, at the suggestion of his 4-H supervisor, bought a black steer, fed it for five months, and took it to the Nashville Fat Cattle Show, where it did badly. Back home, determined to do better, Joe bought a registered Duroc gilt, then...