Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spent three years at "Ole Miss," then transferred to Vanderbilt, where his father felt he could get better legal training, and after one semester there switched to the University of Alabama. While still a senior at Alabama, he passed his bar exams ("I made the highest grade") and promptly dropped out of school to run for the Mississippi state legislature. With his father's backing, 24-year-old Jim Eastland had no trouble in getting elected, and for four years he was one of then Governor Theodore Bilbo's leading supporters in the house of representatives...
...takes 75% of taxable income at the present production rate, but drops as output rises, sinking to 50% when production is doubled. With new incentive, Anaconda's subsidiary, the Andes Copper Mining Co., drilled enough exploratory holes at Indio Muerto to block out 78 million tons of high-grade ore (1.6% copper...
...Parent-Teacher Association reel off a series of gloomy facts and figures about the capital's elementary schoolteacher shortage, Mrs. Arthur Riordan produced some evidence of her own to show the House Appropriations Committee just how low today's teacher standards have fallen. On one first-grade exercise paper she produced, the sevens had been written backwards. On another, three plus six made eight and two plus three made six. On still another, truck had become truk and trains trims. What alarmed Mrs. Riordan was not the mistakes themselves: it was the fact that the teachers had marked...
Marion Tilton preached the gospel of quality, and a few Japanese mills began turning out a trickle of high-grade materials which were sent to New York for display, with the proclamation: "Japan is back in the silk business." It was not. Few orders were taken...
Jacob Henry Tulchin '59 of Wiggles-worth Hall and New York won the Carl Schurz Prize for the highest midyear examination grade in elementary German, Registrar Sargent Kennedy announced yesterday...