Word: grade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afford to refuse. To a syndicate of Texas oilmen he leased the Jumbo for 35 years with an option to buy it outright within 20 years for a cool $10,000,000. Under the lease the Austins will get from 10% to 20% of gross production, depending on the grade of the ore, but in no case less than $100,000 per year. Mr, Austin also stipulated that should the option be exercised, the $10,000,000 must be paid in instalments of not less than $1,000,000 annually. The $250,000 down payment last week was split equally...
...going over the "Confidential Guide" polls, there seems to be a common criticism of many men that personal Preju one Man's dice plays an important part in the grade. "Once a C man, always...
Some men, as we said, are harder markers than others. Since the same student is doing all the answers to one question, he should naturally be given the same grade all through. But if he happened to strike a hard marker, he would feel justifiably hurt at receiving a lower mark than someone else. A par grade should be established for each question, which would total, say, 88 per cent...
Fontaine Maury Maverick dropped his first name (so he says) as a small boy, riding in a wagon up a steep hill, when the driver told him that unless he thus lightened the load they would never make the grade. Critics of New Deal Congressman Maverick assert he has dropped more than a name, accuse him of throwing over family traditions, party principles, national ideals. A literate legislator, Maury Maverick replies to this wholesale charge in a rambling, engaging, man-to-man discourse on the state of the nation and himself...
...Texas he noted that most citizens seemed satisfied to stay there in spite of one who declaimed: "If they gave me hell and Texas, I'd rent out Texas and live in hell." Oklahoma was one long dust storm. He felt he could not improve on the seventh-grade essayist who wrote: "Dust, that terrible word dust, when we hear the word our mind turns to thinking of coughing, choking particles that come from somewhere to make our days unpleasant. . . . One thing we can be proud of United States dust storms are the latest thing...