Word: graders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wichita, an airplane-manufacturing center, the Chamber of Commerce also saw red. Kansas' Representative Cliff Hope complained bitterly to OWI's Elmer Davis about his "presumably high-priced author." Said Hope: a fifth-grader would know better...
...which purport to achieve practically the same object. Then, on the 600-odd pages that follow, he lists and notates the 14,571 words occurring three or more times in any one grade. They begin with a, which occurred 14,830 times in the 353,874 first-grader words which were studied, thus placing it in the "first one hundred of the first five hundred of the first one thousand" most frequently used words in that grade. (In the second grade, a occurred 18,571 times, etc., etc.) They end with zoological, which occurs only five times...
...inventory control, first encountered at mid-term. The pace quickens as weary classmen are spurred ahead with the end in sight. Most of us just hit "Thirty-seven more days to go--unk!" with more stress, but Tommy Donovan took things in hand by taking Nancy-- the Foreign Resources grader, blond with freckles known previously only to Kallaus and Trudeau out for a whirl at the Totem Pole...
...Seventh-Grader Marian Anderson, 21, went to Washington on an FBI job, was replaced by Edith Benson, 22 (two years' experience...
...Eighth-Grader Bessie Buchanan, 27, became a timekeeper in a California airplane factory, was replaced by Grace Phillips, 22 (three years' experience...