Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brookline, Mass. (pop. 57,589), a good number of parents are thumbing it through-and all are doing so with a purpose. Last week they were collecting ammunition for the hottest school battle of the year. Their target: the exclusive teaching of manuscript printing in Brookline's public grade schools...
...course is represented in the form of several books which must be read by the end of January, at which time each student may write a three-hour essay examination upon with his entire grade will rest...
Economics, Bridge & Poker. Neil Hosier McElroy was born in Berea, Ohio, on Oct. 30, 1904, and raised in Madisonville, a suburb of Cincinnati, where his father was a high-school physics instructor, his mother a grade-school teacher. It was a strict Methodist household, but father and mother McElroy sensibly decided that if their three sons were to learn the ways of the world, they might as well do so at home. Instead of having their boys hanging around the local pool hall, they installed a pool table of their own. On Sunday evenings the family gathered for a weekly...
INVESTMENT bankers can expect less SEC red tape. Among pending reforms: 1) shortening of the 20-day waiting period before better-grade debt securities can be sold; 2) shorter registration forms for investment trust and high-grade bonds...
...Everett D. Reese, 55, longtime campaigner for adequate credit for small business, was elected president of the American Bankers Association, which represents 98% of all U.S. banks. Ohio-born and educated, Reese worked his way through grade and high school selling papers, through Ohio State peddling milk and fraternity jewelry, went on to teach economics at Ohio State and Georgia Tech before starting as a teller with the Newark (Ohio) Park National Bank. He rose to president in 1926, has since boosted assets from $1,700,000 to $19 million. ¶ Walter B. Gerould, 53, vice president and comptroller...