Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present, the Law School grades are made on a highly competitive numerical basis. Many Law School students feel that grade distinctions--especially between 62 and 70--are largely artificial, and that a one point difference often leads to an unjustified difference in class standing...
...House: ¶Approved an overhauling of the State Department's Foreign Service branch to weed out "deadwood" and to attract top-grade men. One attraction: an educational allowance for the children of Foreign Service officers stationed overseas. Cost...
Although a few distinguished books appeared in the mass of low-grade paperbacks, the new trend began $% years ago, when the famed British firm of Penguin set up a U.S. branch in Baltimore. Today Penguins are selling at the rate of 1,500,000 a year, and among the bestsellers are such titles as The Odyssey, The Canterbury Tales and Dante's Inferno. In 1953 Doubleday followed, with Anchor books. They were good to look at, with clean, modern covers, and offered (at 65? to $1.25 a volume) such fine old fare as Trevelyan's History of England...
...Rumanian port of Constanta to the Mediterranean and eastward toward Port Said. Then, three weeks ago, like hundreds of other vessels that pass through the Suez Canal, the 10,000-ton Aruba was forced to declare her cargo and destination. It proved to be 13,000 tons of high-grade kerosene consigned to Red China, enough jet plane fuel to carry Communist airmen on an estimated 5,000 jet missions. The world became suddenly interested in the buglike progress of the Aruba...
Brazil's inflation-harried, dollar-starved government heard good news last week from the jungle interior. Near the spot where the Madeira River flows into the Amazon, oil hunters brought in a high-grade gusher, the first oil ever found in Brazil outside the coastal state of Bahia. The oil spurted 150 feet, and made Brazilians gush just as effusively. Said Rio's Correio da Manhá: "Glad tidings! The greatest hope for Brazil's recovery...