Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Washington estimates that Russia has anywhere from five to 60 atom bombs; a favorite guess is 20-25. (Estimates about the U.S. atom bomb stockpile run from several hundred to "a small four figures.") It is certain that Russia's uranium ores are low-grade. A half-dozen or so deposits were discovered in 1944 in the Tashkent area of central Asia. The other main Soviet uranium source is northeast of Lake Baikal, in Siberia...
After "working real hard at it," Jack Dempsey passed his real estate brokers' exam in California with a grade of 85, took his diploma, then hung out a gilt-lettered shingle in Beverly Hills and waited for the customers...
...heeler makes the grade, his reward is "prestige." That's a word often heard around New Haven. When a man breaks onto the Yale Record he is admired by everyone, not because he can write well, which he often can't but because he has achieved success and become a wheel. As one Eli explained, he "fought and conquered." Ask a Yalie who the "big men on campus" are, and he'll reel off a dozen or so names and positions. Year-book polls show that 70 percent of the students "admire students who occupy important extra-curricular positions...
Married. Blanche Thebom, 33, mezzo-soprano who made the grade from a Baptist choir loft in Canton, Ohio to the Metropolitan Opera House; and Richard E. Metz, 38, Manhattan banker; he for the second time; in Manhattan...
From this point of view Universal Service is the better plan. The problem of the college elite, the discriminatory test, the grade, rat race will always be with the country under a deferment system, while the most harmful results of installing U.M.S. will affect the nation only for the first two years...