Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effect on Santa Fe's youngsters was electric. They gaped at the Japanese grade-scholars' craftsmanship, were surprised at how much the kids in the pictures looked like themselves. "Why, these don't seem foreign at all," said one nine-year-old. "They look like my friends." But they did wonder why there were no blond children in Japan, and wished they could read the Japanese writing in the pictures...
Figurehead. In Brisbane, Australia, Mrs. Gertrude Riordan, 65, was swept off her feet by a train at a grade crossing and carried a mile on the cowcatcher to the next station, where she stepped off and said: "My only thought was how silly I must look...
...student in any of the classes I taught, or helped teach, at Radcliffe. (Although she dropped one advanced course at Harvard when she learned that I was to grade papers...
...sixth-grade teacher in the public school in little (pop. 750) Killeen, Texas had an announcement for her class: the prize for the best speller at the end of the term would be a handsome Bible. The dismissal bell was still resounding when a self-assured little girl came forward from her desk, and in a firm, quiet voice told the teacher she might as well go right ahead and inscribe the Bible. It ought to be inscribed to Oveta Culp. Pig-tailed Oveta Culp wasn't being brash or smart-alecky ; she knew she was the best speller...
...American who has gone past the third grade knows the phrase, "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." He may ascribe it variously to the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, or the Emancipation Proclamation, but he knows vaguely that it is a significant phrase. Professor Jones agrees that the single concept of "the pursuit or happiness" is a very important one in American intellectual history, and he has written this book to explain its origin and significance. The result is a fascinating amalgam of constitutional law, political theory, literary analysis, and popular psychology, embracing topics as obscure as the citizen...