Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...married men grow beards, and all men, women and children wear black headdress in public. Farming and a few related trades such as blacksmithing and harness-making are the only approved ways of earning a living. Parents refuse to send their children to public schools beyond the eighth grade-a quirk that has got the Amish into trouble with state and county authorities (TIME, March 24). The strictest members of the sect balk at social security levies on the grounds that I Timothy 5:8 and other Bible passages command them to take care of their own. And they...
...addition, the Scholarship office has attempted to further lighten the increased financial burden by easing grade standards required for the renewal of scholarships and aid grants. The University has also increased its allowances to scholarship students for personal and travel expenses...
...literature unworthy of such close examination? Is it so low-grade that a hundred years must be panned to yield enough for one course? Or, more relatively the question is, does the Department of English now think this...
...city, which has been a good city, used by the Communists all over the world as a tool against our type of government. We have given them the best tool they have had in 20 years." And 220 Little Rock students quietly applied for copies of their grade transcripts-a sign that they intended to transfer soon to other cities...
Matsushita himself came up by frugality and work that was hard even by Japanese standards. Born in Osaka, son of a merchant who lost his kimono selling rice, Konosuke quit school in the fourth grade to go to work in a bicycle shop. At 17 he saw the electric streetcars come in. concluded the future lay in electricity, got a job with the Osaka Electric Light Co. His lack of education blocked promotion, so he saved and borrowed $98 to open a factory in his home...