Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision. Bix bluntly told his wife and family, "how we'd always be broke, how we'd not have enough to eat. how we'd never take any vacation trips." He might have added, had he known the figures, that even if he made the grade by the fall of 1957, his starting salary as a teacher ($3,700) would be nearly $250 less than he would be making as a janitor. But Charlotte Bixby encouraged him to go ahead. While hanging on to his job, Bix enrolled at Portland State College, later switched...
...years the Interpreters' School has turned out only a handful of Giovannas. Since 1951 only 35 have made the grade. But the school's standards are so high that even students with the less difficult translator-interpreter's certificate or the simple "language certificate" find jobs without trouble. As a matter of fact, to have completed the school's courses at all is proof enough that a man or woman is much more than an ordinary linguist. Today's interpreters must not only have the concentration and quickness to translate words and sentences instantly; they...
...said that Beethoven's Fourth Symphony was in the key of B Flat Minor instead of B Flat*), and the show now has trouble persuading experts to risk their reputations against him. Nadler's opponents have generally surpassed him in schooling. He never went beyond the eighth grade at Mullanphy grammar school in St. Louis because he had to work to support his family. But he read hungrily, listened to radio music in his spare time, and found that "just about everything that interested me stuck." Without really trying, he says, he can rattle off the names...
...have the lowest moral code, if any, of any [group], the biggest capacity for liquor and the most savage and vicious tactics when drunk, which is most of the time." Police say that they would need 2,000 extra officers to cope with hillbilly crime; educators have urged special grade-less schools for their children. But short of sending hillbillies back to the hills-and city officials are not even sure how many there are-authorities see no swift or clear-cut solution to the problem...
Most readers, and most officials concerned with the hillbilly headache, applauded Norma Lee. Scores of Southerners-including some who have migrated from the -same areas themselves-wrote to explain that the folks who made the trouble were "poor white trash," "Michigan farmers," "a lower grade of people that are not exactly civilized." But the heaviest response came from hillbillies who had heard about the series. They called Norma Lee-with embellishments -"nigger-lover," "sewer rat," "D.P.," "Communist," "garbage picker," threatened her with fates ranging from poisoning via "Southern-fried chicken in arsenic" to dismemberment at the hands of "us woman...