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With the nation's children trooping back to school after summer vacation, Time magazine compiled a statistical report card in its issue of September 19, 1955. For once the victims of bad marks were not the children. Time was grading the progress made by various Southern states toward integrating their...
The University of Idaho's Edward F. Rinehart, 70, expert animal husbandman of the university's extension service and senior counselor to the state's sheepmen and cattlemen. Since he first arrived in Idaho in 1912, "Riney" has come to know as much about the grazing lands...
In California Father Jess Knight made a comfortable living as a street and grading contractor who built miles of Los Angeles County's roads. During World War I, he lost his business and nearly $250,000 in a disastrous municipal-bond investment, but later recouped and became a successful...
* Seemingly a modest number, but considerably more than the 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire, which taxed Bostons' medical facilities to the utmost with 181 cases. * Originally, according to Webster: "The process of grading marketable produce."
The report asserted that some professors lowered grade standards to encourage registration in their courses, and students corroborated the allegation. To remedy this, the report suggested departmental standards of grading by which a student would be marked not just against his won section or course, but against the level of...