Word: grading
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...indirect allusions and indirect defenses, he could restate the philosophy of his administration: 1) about the extension of Federal power (that prompted Republican charges of eventual dictatorship); 2) about spending (that prompted Wendell Willkie's charge of eventual bankruptcy). Dedicating his three schools (a high school and two grade schools near Hyde Park), he reaffirmed the meaning of education in a democracy: "In these schools of ours . . . the children of today and of future generations will be taught, without censorship or restriction, the facts of current history and the whole content of current knowledge...
...group included more than 1,000 grade-school pupils, averaging nine or ten years, and more than 250 high-school students, with a median age of 15. Jews ranked easily best, followed by children of old U. S. stock originally from New England or the Middle West...
...Pennsylvania Turnpike has no curves to speak of; its almost imperceptible jogs could be taken without hazard at 90 m.p.h. For 70% of its way it is straight as a die; one 13-mile stretch marches as unwaveringly as a Roman road. Its steepest grade...
Loadstone to steel magnates and international industrial groups for many years has been 15,000,000,000 tons of iron ore (one of the largest known high-grade deposits in the world) pocketed away in the State of Minas Geraes. The Minas Geraes fields are within 200 miles of the coast and north of Brazil's great port, Rio de Janeiro. Coal for smelting is available in Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. The Brazilian Government had dreamed of developing its steel industry independently, but, finding the financial burden too great, it offered the concession to the highest...
...corner, although it had hoped that $100,000 would be enough (but The New Yorker did not go through reorganization). Having failed with $1,500,000, Publisher Ingersoll hoped to turn the corner with $2,000,000 or $2,500,000. Best of all, PM still had a Grade A angel...