Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston School Committee this week unanimously approved a plan to train teachers to detect juvenile delinquency, or tendencies toward it, in grade school children. The project closely follows a proposal made in a recent book by Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, and his wife, Dr. Eleanor Glueck, a research criminologist at the Law School...
Another practice in this decade of liberal education was the unique "Pay as You Pass" system, introduced by University Tutors. Although a "Gentleman's C" was practically guaranteed, the tutee paid on a sliding scale, with prices increasing as the grade improved...
...made a conventional passenger car since 1942, claimed that the Aero's six-cylinder, go-h.p. engine gets more horsepower for its size than any other U.S. automobile engine. With overdrive ($86 extra), Willys said the Aero can do 35 miles on a gallon of regular-grade gasoline. One big drawback: the small Aero (gft. wheel base, 2,570 Ibs.) is high-priced. List price, without extras: $1,824 to $1,903 (f.o.b. Toledo), considerably higher than other small cars now on the market...
...because there is not enough coal to swap for Argentine beef; French steel mills stand idle for lack of coal and coke. The Dutch army all but disappeared over the holidays, when the government gave its soldiers an eleven-day furlough to save precious coal. Sweden sells its high-grade iron ore to Communist Poland instead of supplying its old customer Britain, because the Poles can trade coal in exchange, the British cannot. The Poles, taking advantage of Sweden's need, get ballbearings and generators in exchange, to nourish the Red army...
...Mille, against the forceful objection of her father, Playwright William de Mille, and of her uncle, Movie Producer Cecil B. de Mille, set her foot on the thorny way to become a famous dancer. In Dance to the Piper, her autobiography, she tells how she slowly made the grade. Dance to the Piper is considerably more than the success story of a poor little rich girl. It is a witty, civilized account of an age of revolution in the dance, by one of the spunkiest of the revolutionaries...