Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Sure enough, the rocks contained streaks of a low-grade uranium ore called carnotite. Paddy staked a 160-acre claim for himself, a few more for his sons, and waited for the Government to come and give him $10,000. He didn't get it; the big bonus is offered only to those who find a deposit of high-grade ore, such as pitchblende. But his discovery, made at the 7,000-foot level on a huge, reddish mesa called Haystack Mountain (only 100 miles from the Los Alamos atomic project), set off a uranium rush which took Grants...
...worse, but no better, than blancmange. Composer Britten has turned out a pleasant score, full of tricky tunes and comic-opera ensembles. But the relentless whimsicality makes A. A. Milne seem downright dour; and the hippety-hoppeting would cause growls and mutters in any mildly progressive fourth grade...
...materials had jumped anywhere from 7% in steel to 300% in rubber. Said he: only a day before Valentine's telegram went out, the Government itself had "raised the price of synthetic rubber, the production and distribution of which it completely controls . . . by 12% on one grade and 32% on another." (The Government's reason: higher raw material costs...
Right now there is no grade race, no elite, indeed no certainty as to whether there will be any colleges at all once draft quotas really begin to pinch the local boards. If Congress does not specify a uniform draft policy for the nation, but merely renews the local option provisions of the present bill, there will be something akin to chaos in American colleges within the next year...
...class will visit 200 Cambridge homes which will have a "television Christmas" and 200 which won't. By comparing notes, they expect to determine whether Hopalong Cassidy must replace the Grade One Primer to keep children happy...