Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...list was the name of Ann Hale, Jr., '30, a former second-grade teacher in Wayland, Mass., who has herself dispelled doubts as to her Communist sympathies and had subsequently been suspended from her teaching duties by the Wayland School Committee...
...action than ideas. Hungarian-born Author Kovács, a World War II underground fighter and onetime secretary-general of Hungary's National Peasant Party, now works for the Free Europe Committee in New York. Lacking the theoretical brilliance of a Koestler, he nonetheless brings to his grade B Darkness at Noon a fingertip knowledge of the Communist mind in action...
...name from Bjorkegren). The eldest of six children, Arleigh found his life was paced by farm chores. A sister remembers: "When he was four years old, he was out in the fields leading the stacking horse" when the hay was harvested. In an essay on military training, written in grade school, young Burke said: "This training teaches one of the greatest problems of success: discipline . . . War methods change, but the necessity for discipline never changes." He entered Annapolis at 17, graduated 70th in the class of 1923, later earned a Master of Science degree in chemical engineering from the University...
...people, 73 were killed. Eighty-five were missing and unaccounted for. More than 200 were injured. Of the houses, 170 were smashed to bits, 16 damaged beyond repair and only one left unscathed. Almost all property and automobiles were wrecked. The city hall, three churches, the old grade school and new $250,000 high school were destroyed. For its size, Udall had suffered the worst tornado toll in history. Paper and debris from Udall were picked up dozens of miles away, but none of Aileen Holtje's wedding presents were found, except-three days later some yellow and lavender...
...month and then working like crazy (and at overtime) in the second half to make up the month's prescribed production quota. A new word was added to the Soviet work vocabulary to describe this phenomenon: shturmovshchina, i.e., storm attack. "Shturmovshchina," said Premier Bulganin, "leads to low-grade production...