Word: grading
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...string of hotels and theaters. Cohn's old boss, Irving Saypol, got Dave and Roy together at a luncheon in a restaurant in downtown Manhattan in 1952. Dave Schine turned out to be a pleasant, articulate young man with the build and features of a junior-grade Greek god. The two 25-year-olds were soon cutting a wide swath through Manhattan's best restaurants and nightclubs. Dave had plenty of money (and, for that matter, Roy was drawing down $20,000 a year from a private law partnership, in addition to his salary). More important to their...
...feels the same way about structural metals, such as iron, aluminum and magnesium. Rich and handy ore deposits will be exhausted soon, but there will always be plenty of low-grade stuff. Sea water can be mined for many useful materials, and the same granite that provides uranium can supply nearly every mineral...
Brown ends with only a faint note of hope. "We see that, although our high-grade resources are disappearing, we can live comfortably on low-grade resources. We see that, although a large fraction of the world's population is starving, all of humanity can, in principle, be nourished adequately. We see that, although world populations are increasing rapidly, those populations can, in principle, be stabilized . . . But it is equally clear that the achievement of this condition will require the application of intelligence, imagination, courage, unselfish help, planning and prodigious effort . . . Man is rapidly creating a situation from which...
...Grade-school children in Chicago were playing a new numbers game: I Win, a close cousin to rummy, which is supposed to teach them arithmetic. Invented by Gertrude Gebbie, an accountant who wanted to help "children who don't have the patience to learn by rote," / Win has the approval of the Chicago board of education, sells retail at 75? a deck. Half a million decks are already...
...Kentucky, the state legislature pigeonholed a bill that would have made a twelfth-grade education, or higher, a necessary qualification for any citizen seeking election to a school board. One argument against the bill: 87% of all Kentuckians over 25, and 8% of their legislators, would be ineligible to serve...