Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take Milton Eisenhower long to make the grade. Ten months after he took over, the students officially awarded him the title traditionally reserved at Penn State only for presidents who have won the respect and affection of the campus. The honor was well deserved. Never before had Penn State known the prosperity or prestige that came to it under Milton Eisenhower...
...homogenization is that scraps and stems (up to 30% of the leaf) that are now discarded can be pulverized, mixed with a cellulose adhesive and squeezed out in continuous rolls. For both cigar and cigarette makers, man-made leaf means a big cut in the cost of handling, grading and curing tobacco. Cigar makers who have switched to HTL binder can use imperfect broad-leaf (costing only 30? per lb. v. high-grade broadleaf costing up to 60?), find they need 50% less tobacco. Southern growers are complaining that use of man-made leaf in cigarettes will depress the market...
...other institutions in the South. Most southern states have, admittedly, shown a certain willingness to integrate students at the university level. Some, such as Tennessee, have suggested tenative plans for integrating first at the graduate level, and then working down to the college and finally the school level, one grade more each year. But even this scheme, better than nothing, to be sure, does not face the realities of the situation...
...Brass Factory. In his long career, Sculptor Zorach has had more than his share of artistic hard knocks. As an immigrant boy in Cleveland, Ohio, he earned pennies selling newspapers, worked in a machine shop and brass factory before he quit school for good after the seventh grade and became an apprentice lithographer. Saving up $160, he set off for New York to study art, got back home flat broke almost a year later and saved up more money, this time to go to Paris...
...story is a kind of grade-school fable told in the first person by the novel's nine-year-old heroine. The little girl's nickname is Twink. She is also nicknamed Frog, Dandelion, Grasshopper and Mrs. Nijinsky. Twink has a mother, Mama Girl, and a father, Papa Boy. Unfortunately, Mama Girl and Papa Boy are divorced, and Papa Boy lives in Paris with Twink's brother, Peter Bolivia Agriculture. Cause of the split, it seems, is that Mama Girl cannot put her mind to being a Wife Woman when her heart is set on being...