Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rapidez, one of the most sought-after trainers in Latin America, knows all about thoroughbreds. Born Alfredo Cruz in Matanzas, Cuba, he quit school in the third grade and at age 13 went to Havana, where his quick hands won him the name Kid Rapidez and the Cuban flyweight title. After losing only eight of nearly 200 fights, the Kid retired and became a trainer at Havana's National Academy of Boxing. There he groomed such classy fighters as former Welterweight Champions Luis Rodriguez and the late Benny ("Kid") Paret. When Fidel Castro banned professional sports in Cuba, Rapidez...
Students who requested removal of course from their schedules after the fourth Monday of this semester were refused permission. "We held the line and didn't let anybody off the book." Whitlock said. "Some people have, in effect, dropped a course and will receive a grade of 'absent,'" he added...
Although an absent grade previously had been considered equivalent to failure, this semester senior tutors will be able to "consider it (an absent grade) in light of what he knows about the student and why he did it." Whitlock said...
...raise tantalizing visions of big money and easy living for the frequently gullible audience. Often Turner himself will appear, accompanied by twin midgets who serve as his goodwill ambassadors. Sometimes balancing himself on two chairs. Turner spellbinds his listeners by recounting how he succeeded despite his harelip, his eighth-grade education and his early poverty...
...first read lonesco in the ninth grade. I particularly remember it because The Bald Soprano was the first piece of grown-up literature I ever got excited about. It is interesting that we should have gone beyond our pubescent skepticism to enthusiastically appreciate a play that strained even the breadth of adult tolerances. It certainly fit our attention spans much better than Dickens and, to be candid, we were not above its nihilism. But our liking for The Bald Soprano was not the product of our baser thirteen year old instincts. After a childhood of Dick and Jane and Landmark...