Word: grade
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't much like it. The elongated shape of the ball seemed peculiar. He found the repeated stops and starts boring and confusing. Worse, he felt the frequent substitutions from the sidelines robbed the game of the natural flow that is the glory of soccer, his consuming passion since grade school...
...numbers verify that house stereotypes are not just a figment of administrative imagination. They show a strong correlation between the house in which students live and their grade point average and honors graduation...
...much grade consciousness is a bad thing," said Deborah A. Cohen '90 of Cabot House. "But this is a good prize...
...wealthy Collor, 40, gained national attention by attacking his state's bureaucratic "maharajas." The radical socialist Lula, 44, left school after the eighth grade, became a lathe operator and entered union politics. The old- style populist Brizola, 67, was once governor of Rio de Janeiro state...
...really thinks about Thanksgiving? Most adults absorb the larger meaning of the holiday as part of the first-grade catechism (Pilgrims, friendly Indians, a day for offering thanks) and rarely move beyond Care-Bears sentimentality. This built-in ickiness is a pity, since it tends to overshadow the symbolic significance of Thanksgiving, that most unrepentantly old- fashioned of American celebrations, that patriotic heirloom that nobody has figured out a way to ruin...