Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Before leaving Detroit for a tour of Canada, Britain's oldtime music-hall comedienne Grade Fields fired a parting shot at her fellow comedians: "Everybody is trying to be too clever and too quick these days. It's the day of the gag writer. The actors grab their dreary little scripts and study them frantically for a half hour, and then expect to put on a show...
With steel mills running at better than 100% capacity for the eighth consecutive week, the wildest commodity of all was steel scrap. Top-grade scrap climbed to $46 a ton last week, a 48% advance in three months, to hit an alltime high. At week's end some big buyers dropped out of the market to wait for lower prices. But many industrial purchasing agents predicted that most metals will be high and scarce for the rest of the year. The Dow-Jones commodity futures index, which reflects traders' ideas of coming prices, pointed to still more rises...
Surprise. In Douglas, Wyo., 14-year-old Jimmy Willox, after having ridden horseback 20 miles to school every day for the past eight years, received an eighth-grade graduation present from his proud father: a saddle horse...
Most Ph.D.s who get instructors' jobs in U.S. colleges have had little or no training in teaching. Generally not required to take courses in education as grade and high-school teachers are, they are expected to learn pedagogical techniques as they go along. To help them over the bumps and bogs in the path of hard experience, Radcliffe Dean Bernice B. Cronkhite last week had turned out a Handbook for College Teachers (Harvard University Press...
...make Childs's food more appetizing, they brought in experts in coffee-making, began buying top-grade butter & eggs, fresher vegetables, etc. To lure more people into Childs, they are planning to spend $1,500,000 on renovation. The team hopes to revive the "Meet me at Childs" saying of the '20s by installing pancake griddles in the windows again-and hiring pretty Jills to flip the jacks...