Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...history. Brooding over the tomb of Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, in Gloucester's handsome cathedral, McKenney drops into a palsy-walsy reverie: "Poor old Robert. I have always wondered why they called him Curthose. Maybe his stockings kept slipping down, the way mine did in the sixth grade?" When dealing, with the world of here & now, Author McKenney drops into a dear-diary style more suggestive of Anita Loos's Lorelei Lee than of an ex-staff writer of the New Masses. "In fact, I think leaving debris around even in a place totally remote, is antisocial...
...when the frozen-food market collapsed that year, in a glut of low-grade products, the three partners did not have enough capital to weather the disastrous drop in prices. For $250,000 they sold Snow Crop's name and good will to Clinton Foods Inc., third largest U.S. producer of corn products, took jobs as heads of the corporation's new frozen-foods division. Moone promptly sank $15 million of Clinton's money into groves and four packing plants, contracted to take the entire output of 39 more plants. Pushed along by a big advertising campaign...
...number of 14-and 15-year-olds who are leaving school before graduating to go to work has dropped from 31% in 1900 to less than 5% in 1950. In the same period the school year has been lengthened from 99 to 152 days, and the proportion of grade-school students who go on to high school has almost tripled. N.E.A.'s only recommendation: build more schools...
...announcement did not come as a complete surprise. After 23 turbulent years in the major leagues, Joe McCarthy, who never made the grade as a player, had built a reputation as a manager that few others could even approach. His teams had never finished out of the first division, had won pennants in both leagues, nine league titles, seven world series. From 1936-39 his unstoppable New York Yankees won four straight world championships...
Back in the days when West Point and Annapolis both filled their ranks mainly through presidential and congressional appointees, the Army-Navy football series was on an even keel. But in 1942, Army got authority from Congress to pick its own candidates when congressional choices failed to make the grade. When Army beat Navy in 1944 for the first time in six years, suspicious Navy men began to wonder if West Point had not found a new source for husky linemen and jet-propelled backs. Last year, after five lean Navy seasons, capped by 1949's thumping...