Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mixed feed and poured most of it into a trough for his non-purebred calves. Stepping back, he gauged with practiced eye each calf's enthusiasm for the mixture. Such attention pays off: only a few days before, he had spotted a white-faced black steer (a grade cross between Hereford and Angus) mincing at the feed. Although the calf's nose was not running, Joe figured it might have a cold, or, worse yet, be "one of them that just never does eat like he oughta." With the help of his old high-school vocational agriculture teacher...
...thumb in his mouth. Finally grandmother Carver said: "Joe, this has gone far enough. We'll just have to stop giving you money." Replied Joe: "If you do, I'll keep right on sucking my thumb." And so he did, until he was in the second grade and decided that he wanted more than anything on earth a Jersey cow that had been offered to his father as payment for a debt. When Joe pleaded to have the cow, his father said: "You can have her if you quit sucking your thumb. None of us must ever...
Like his father, Ed never made it to college. He got part-time jobs at factories, played semi-pro baseball (catcher), before finally becoming the sports editor of the Item at $12 a week. Ed next moved to the Hartford Post and at last made the grade as a Manhattan sportswriter on the New York Evening Mail, where he says he coined the phrase "Little Miss Poker Face" for Tennis Champion Helen Wills. In his early days as a reporter, Ed was frequently mistaken for a rising young actor named Humphrey Bogart, who also had high cheekbones and a deadpan...
Effective this fall, students contending for the Dean's List will have to stand in the top 25 per cent of their class, rather than meet the old standard of a grade average of 80 per cent. The cut was made to "preserve the prestige" of the list, Associate Dean Richard C. Carsoll said...
...While the World Series wound up the baseball season, some players whose teams did not make the grade quietly slipped into the record book. Cleveland Pitcher Herb Score and St. Louis Outfielder Bill Virdon were named Rookies of the Year. The National League batting title went to the Phillies' Outfielder Richie Ashburn who hit .338. The American League winner: Detroit Outfielder Al Kaline...