Word: grader
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sneedville, Term., lanky Hill-Billy Charlie Johns, 22, married blue-eyed third-grader Eunice Winstead, 9. Reverend Walter Lamb said he had performed the ceremony on a lonely road when they accosted him, told him that "if I didn't marry them some one else would." For a wedding present the groom gave the bride a doll. Said Eunice's mother, who had another daughter married at 13 and is herself a grandmother at 33: "I haven't brought up my children to marry what men has got, but to marry for love." Said Tennessee...
Maybe you did get a little warm, but then who wouldn't get burned watching them stand up there being stubborn, all about a little old oath that even a first grader could memorize like nothing...
...aimed to master the intricacies of accounting, 23% ranged in academic ability between the average seventh-grader and the high school junior. To the study of electrical engineering, architecture and chemical engineering, only 20% of the Minnesota aspirants had brought high-school training. More than one-sixth had not finished grade school. Considerably less than half of the would-be advertising men, lawyers, executives had finished high school...
...McDonald & Kahn Ltd.; Morrison-Knud-sen & Co.; J. F. Shea Co. and Pacific Bridge Co. Principal organizer of Six Companies and its president is William H. Wattis, 72, head of Utah Construction Co. With his older brother, Edmund Orson Wattis (Six Companies' vice president) he began work as a grader when the Union Pacific first pushed into Utah. Together the Wattis brothers built the Western Pacific from Salt Lake City to Oroville, Calif, (a $20,000,000 job), the Southern Pacific into Mexico, the American Falls Dam in Idaho, the Gibson Dam in Montana, the Guernsey Dam in Wyoming...
...Byrd, written by enthusiastic U. S. school children. Though no prize had been offered, the idea, suggested by the N. E. A., inspired some 40.000 youngsters to send in essays, drawings, illuminated scrolls, a model of the Admiral's City of New York carved in laundry soap. A 6th-grader wrote: "I am happy to have the opportunity to write to the man who explored the South Pole. I have seen the pictures of your adventures in the cold blizzards. ... In those pictures of your expeditions, I liked best where you dressed Igloo your dog, in that sweater and shoes...