Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harlan P. Hansen, Director of Advanced Standing, also reported that his office has received 28 applications for admission directly from the eleventh grade, but does not expect any more...
...Classicism," "Dostoevsky and Tolstoy," and a few others. Many of Poggioli's colleagues consider him one of the two or three top scholars in comparative literature in the world. Concerning his plans for the future, he is working on a book which will analyze the whole field of avant-grade art and literature. During his summers, he says, "I travel all over the country. I like to travel far, and I like variety...
...Princeton, the distinction was abolished in 1949. Under the Tiger plan letters are awarded on the basis of a complicated gradation system, where an average football player will win a better grade letter than an average squash player. In effect, the Princeton system has abolished major and minor sports...
China & Cotton. The changes are the price of survival for the old leaders. For years the biggest firms made only three standard types of carpets, all of them woolen and all on looms. The grades ranged from a low-price Axminster weave to a more expensive velvet weave, and a Wilton weave, costliest of all. The best wool for these rugs came from China, India and Pakistan. But in 1950 China slapped an embargo on all wool exports; India and Pakistan followed with stiff quotas on shipments, thus cutting off nearly 30% of the best grade of U.S. wool imports...
Using cheap cotton, the Southern firms made rugs that cost as little as $4 a sq. yd. ($10 for the best grade), compared to $9 and $15 for good-quality wool rugs. The new cotton rugs matted easily, soiled faster and absorbed more moisture than wool, but they could be cleaned at home. U.S. housewives found cotton rugs a good substitute, and rushed to buy. One former carpet salesman named Eugene Barwick started a company in Georgia on only $4,500, now has expanded his business into a whole line of tufted rugs with annual sales of $32 million...