Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Family & Early Years: Born May 1, 1895 in Albany, N.Y., where his father, John A. Stephens, was a law partner of New York's Governor (and U.S. Senator) David B. Hill. After grade and elementary school in Albany, entered Connecticut's Wesleyan University, transferred after his junior year to the newly organized School of Business at Columbia University (B.A., 1917). In 1918 married Mary Elizabeth Lathrop; they have two daughters, four grandchildren...
...Mellons moved to New Orleans. Larry completed his premed work in two summers and a regular term at Tulane University, and ground his way through Tulane's Medical School in four years. "I didn't know whether I was going to be able to make the grade," said Dr. Mellon when at last it was over. Gwen Mellon learned to be a laboratory technician and "scrub" nurse (in charge of instruments in an operating room...
...respect to William Harvey's June 18 "cutlet" for cheating on examinations (formulae on fingernails and a circular note under his wristwatch crystal): for knowing so precisely what was to be asked on the examination without benefit of an espionage system, Mr. Harvey deserved at least a passing grade. Anything he could write on so small a space might just as well have been memorized. Most of the myths students cherish about cheating are about as reliable. Ever hear about the boy with the hearing aid tuned in to a portable tape recorder...
...Increased use of farm machinery, fertilizers, insecticides and high-grade seed...
...wife and friends were also heard, and Britons weighed the fragmentary, inconclusive sort of evidence that has troubled so many Americans in the past few years. Lang pointed out that he had served during the war in the Intelligence Corps, in what he called "high-grade security work." He had briefly been a member of the British-Soviet Friendship Society, and assistant treasurer of the socialist Haldane Society at a time when many Laborite lawyers had quit in disgust at its espousal of Communist causes (Lang himself quit in 1950 over the society's support of Communist charges...