Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began to enroll in the U.S.'s often overcrowded and understaffed schools and colleges-1,754,300 more than last year, and an astonishing one-fourth of the nation's population. "It gets to be more fun each year," said Mrs. Creta McVean, teacher of the first grade of Dallas' James W. Fannin Elementary School, as she looked forward to her 30th year of teaching school. "I anticipate what we'll be doing with a great deal of pleasure...
...crosses of gold, silver, paper and every other substance used to back currency. From early colonial days, when they had to ship scarce gold and silver abroad to pay for imports, Americans chronically lacked sufficient backing for stable money. Virginia in the 17th century used tobacco for money (top-grade weed was worth 3$. a lb.), but was plunged into inflation by citizens' cash crops...
...Presbyterian, he attends weekly services, teaches a ninth-grade Sunday-school class, has a picture of Jesus on his office wall. He worries lest his religious zeal be taken for political haymaking, guards against that possibility by extreme measures; e.g., he slips out of a service during the benediction to avoid church-step handshaking, insists that he be known to his Sunday-school class as Mr. (not Governor) Langlie. He neither smokes nor drinks, but is undisturbed if others do. In his eyes the ultimate evil is immorality, especially in politics. Says a longtime friend: "If there is an unavoidable...
...liquor department, quick-moving, fast-talking Jack Kaplan decided to concentrate on grape-juice production instead. He started an aggressive marketing campaign, expanded capacity and helped raise growers' prices (from $12 a ton in 1933 to $100 last year), thus assuring a steady flow of top-grade grapes...
...domesticity, Dorothy Tyler comes close to acting out her dream. She has been jumping all her life. Her odd avocation dates back to grade school, when she won a high-jumping tournament and set a schoolgirl record (4 ft. 9 in.) that still stands. After that she studied to become a secretary. "Secretaries," she explains, "don't work on Saturdays, when they have athletic meets...