Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...having been no reason for the first match, except a grossly commercial one, there is even less cause for a second slaughter. And when Weill says, with a straight face, that he is considering a return bout in London, that is the supreme insult to everyone above the third-grade moron class...
...Wilbur Shaw made the grade: he got a car to drive on the big brick oval at Indianapolis. It was a rebuilt Miller, 10 to 12 m.p.h. slower than most other cars in the race, and it was something of a jinx. In it, famed Jimmy Murphy, winner of the Indianapolis in 1922, had driven to his death at Syracuse, N.Y., three years before. To Wilbur Shaw the old Miller was just another car, and the cocky, mustachioed little hell-raiser drove it home in fourth place...
...Furthermore, the shortage of strong-gluten wheat is so great that whenever a shipment of it does go to a commercial elevator for Government storage, it rarely gets into a Government bin. Reason: elevator operators are free to sell the wheat at a premium, and replace it with equal-grade but weak-gluten wheat purchased at lower cost...
...completed the first grade in one week, the second grad in two weeks, and then spent the rest of the school year finishing the third grade. After spending the usual amount of time in the fourth and fifth grade, he skipped the sixth. Two more ordinary school years passed, however, before Reade reached Way-mouth High school which he went through in three years. In achieving this remarkable record, Reade attended five schools in eight years...
Beginning next fall, any second-grader who is still not prepared to read by the end of the year will stay in the second grade. If at the end of his third year he has fallen two years behind, he will either 1) get special help in his regular grade, or 2) be transferred to an "opportunity class" for intensive remedial work...