Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eighth grade, at the age of 12½, Bob entered his first real track meet. He high-jumped 5 ft. 6 in. The same day, Gene was competing in a high-school meet, where the winning height was 5 ft. 5 in. "There just wasn't much doubt about it," Mrs. Mathias says, "the boy was beginning to get awfully good...
...White Suit. Top-grade Britich comedy, with Alec Guinness (TIME, April...
Fine was born (1893) in such a town, an anthracite "mine patch" near Nanticoke. His father worked for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Coal Co., first running the stationary engine in the shaft, then working on a company-owned farm. When little John was in grade school, he helped at farm chores and plowing. But he found that a man could still make his way out of the dark hills if he wanted to. After he graduated from high school, Fine studied law, paying his way by a job delivering and picking up laundry...
...graduated from grade school with honors, enrolled in the New York Nautical School, with his sextant took a sight on success. Says Manning: "I was a fanatic on navigation." He was the smallest in his class, but he was also smart and tough. Two years and many fistfights later, he shipped out on the St. Paul as a $15-a-month seaman. With the new Marcq St.-Hilaire navigating system learned in school, a refinement of which is now in common use in the Navy, Manning soon distinguished himself as a navigator, and was made quartermaster the second trip...
...White Suit. Top-grade British comedy, with Alec Guinness (TIME, April...