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TIME does an excellent job in reporting history but a more questionable one in grading it. In your issue of Oct. 29, you give King Ibn Saud a "flunk" in ancient history, ethnology, and arithmetic. While granting that the King's mathematics seems dubious, I must protest your flunking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 26, 1945 | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

No testing laboratory was ever more searching and efficient in grading products than were the Nazi concentration camps, with their spiritual micrometers of hard labor, starvation and calculated torture, in grading men.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Micrometers of Men | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

Music Teacher Phyllis Brefka, 23, was just about to strike up the band at the annual Mayville (Wis.) High School graduation picnic. Suddenly four graduating girls who disliked her grading system swooped, grabbed her, dumped her in a nearby river. Last fortnight each of the four was fined $15 plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lesson | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

A good many high-graders are captured. In 1942, 13 men and a woman were convicted of high-grading and peddling $1,220,000 in stolen gold.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: MINING: High-Grading | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

Navy records have been greatly facilitated the constant screenings and grade reports of the V-12 programs here require fast action, and the machines are able to give it. Civilian uses range from grading placement tests to figuring out the ratio of students to the various preparatory schools. In addition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mechanical Brains Aid in Tabulations | 8/8/1944 | See Source »

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