Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letters rallying to the Flesch banner, he noted that one teacher had spelled differentiate with one "f" and another wrote seperately. Several grown ups used alright for all right; one mother put two "l's" in personality, and three fathers had written such oddities as begining, forth grade, and uncerten. Editor Fell's conclusion: "A lot of grownups aren't any hotter with their spelling than some of them think you are, Johnny, with your reading...
Tony Hart was born eleven years later in Worcester, Mass. Both boys' hearts' pumped grease paint. Some grade-school doggerel of Harrigan's reads...
...Depression South. Their families were poor, their lives unhappy, their world warped. Bell's father bragged that "I could always scare him into anything"; Griggs ran away, eventually joined the Army because of a school-bus teasing about a girl friend. Bell spent three years in the eighth grade; when Cowart wrote a Communist-line letter from the Communist prison camp about McCarthyism and McCarranism. one of his teachers said: "How much it would have gratified us when he was in school to have known that he could even identify national figures." Cowart was in the Army...
...They fear that many investors, discouraged by comparatively low stock yields will start shifting from stocks to safer bonds, possibly touching off a major decline in stock prices. Last week yields on industrial stocks were averaging 3.53%, down almost a third of a point in two weeks, while high-grade bond averages were almost steady at 2.96%. But, because so many investors appear to be buying for growth instead of dividends, brokers are beginning to doubt if narrowing yields mean much in the current market. As a further sign of strength, in three out of the last four weeks, bank...
...resistant plastic sheet that can be heat-bonded to plywood and painted. The fungus-resistant plastic, called CreZon, will be sold in rolls to plywood manufacturers, is expected to make plywood a practical exterior building material under all conditions. It will add slightly to the cost of untreated, top-grade plywood...