Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other disciples desert the Mahatma. Since he deserted the popular cause of trying to free India for the unpopular one of trying to gain equality for India's "untouchables" his prestige has steadily waned. At Nagpur last month scurrilous Indians even pelted eggs at St. Gandhi, missed their mark...
...schedule for the season is as follows: December 20, Belmont Hill; January 6, Noble and Greenough at Dedham: January 10, Belmont High; January 13, Milton Academy at Milton; January 17, Exeter; January 20, St. Mark's at Southboro; January 27, Boston University Freshmen; February 7, Framingham High; February 12, Mountain Lakes Club; February 14, Newton High; February 17, Dartmouth Freshmen; February 20, Harvard Junior Varsity; February 22, St. Paul's at Concord; February 24, Yale at New Haven...
Letter ratings were an improvement because they did not require such impossible exactness. All such ratings, however, have defects when used with school children. They are comparative rather than diagnostic, the comparison being both with a pass mark and with other pupils. They show nothing of the degree of effort, shown, the development the pupil is making, the weaknesses that should be overcome, or the strength that should be recognized...
...Anderson Galleries until the auctioneer's ivory hammer knocked down a 15th Century portrait bust of a Princess of Aragon by Francesco Laurana to Lord Duveen of Millbank, for $102,500. It was the highest price paid at an art auction in New York since Depression, high water mark in the three day sale of the heterogeneous art collection of shrewd old Thomas Fortune Ryan. Relatives, collectors, and many of the original dealers from whom he bought them bid up the rest of the etchings, picture books, Persian rugs, Gothic and Renaissance bronzes & marbles, Etruscan urns and other pomps...
Prices. It costs about $1.50 to make a case of whiskey (three gallons). Barreling, bottling, labeling and aging add about $6. The present Federal tax of $1.10 (which will probably be upped) a gallon adds $3.30. To this total production cost of $10.80 a case must be added the mark-up of middleman and distributor. For some time to come the retail price of reasonably good whiskey will be around $30 a case. Testifying in Washington last week, distillers said they could retail blended whiskey for $1.50 a quart but they did not specify the quality. Most whiskey men believe...