Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ideally should provide: an evaluation of the extent to which a student has mastered, or failed to master, an area of knowledge. If the grade system, which is now under attack from several quarters, at times does not provide this kind of answer--and who has not sometimes received higher marks in courses for which he was less well prepared?--this is the fault not of the system's theory, but of its practice. More exacting, more factual examinations, and at least one term paper in every non-scientific course, would certainly help eliminate the tendency...
...Establishing, during the same period, common tariffs against outside nations at an average level lower than France's, higher than the Low Countries...
...Abolishing discriminatory transportation charges, such as higher rates for goods originating in another country...
Voluntary Curbs. Some Southern states, irked by Government sales of cotton to Japan at 25% discount, pushed for restrictive state laws to check Japanese imports. The Tariff Commission urged presidential approval of a 100% hike in velveteen tariffs, the highest in 27 years; it began studying higher tariffs on Japanese gingham imports, now 48% of U.S. production...
...power, railroaders have been able to boost the total amount of freight by 45% to 650 billion ton-miles in 1956. And that is only the beginning: in the next ten years, the industry expects to spend $20 billion more for modernization to cut costs and boost volume even higher...