Too-Faraway Grandparent During a talk I gave to a senior citizens group a woman in the audience remarked, 'I'm a volunteer helper in a class of first graders at (naming a nearby school.
This done, Charley called the balance of the graders and ground men together and gave them a large bottle of carbolic acid and a box of salve, instructing them how to use both.
With his graders he had thrown up mounds of dirt and roots every fifty feet circling the camp.
They found the Captain, seated in the shade of a pine tree, smoking his pipe and watching the graders at work.
One of the graders is sick," the old sailor informed him.
Much to his delight, he found everything going on as usual, dinner cooking in the cook tent, the machine busily digging, and the graders leveling off close behind it.
Time passed swiftly, and in another half-hour the graders began to arrive.
He and the gang must have been camped with those graders you brought here.
While the cabin burned, and the troopers and graders watched, Neale now searched for the face of the man he had recognized--the ruffian Allie called Fresno.
He saw the graders break and run, some on his side of the cabin.
But we can use the gradersfrom the camp up the line.
Shouts of the graders defiantly answered the yells of the savages.
So many of the graders essayed to follow that they blocked the narrow opening between the inclosure and house.
Many of the graders had been wounded, some seriously, but none fatally.
The graders were firing, but Neale believed they would have done better to save their powder.
The construction camp of the graders moved on westward, keeping ahead of the camps of the layers.
He returned with the graders to their camp; and it was no surprise to him to find the wagon-train, that had tarried near, gone in the night.
The graders greeted this information with loud hurrahs.
After a long, slow journey the point was reached where the graders had left off work for that year.
They had met the graders from the west, and the two lines of road-bed had been connected.
He rode at a gallop through a wagontrain camp, which, from its quiet looks, was not connected with the work on the railroad, straight on into the midst of two hundred or more graders just about to begin the day's work.
He supposed that the graders would fill up that hole.
And there's a little gravel over there that is hardly worth taking, and we'll leave it for thegraders to use.
A 1983 Weekly Reader survey found that television and movies had the greatest influence on fourth graders in making drugs and alcohol seem attractive; other children had the second greatest influence.
If thegraders disagree, their differences are referred to the board of coffee arbitrators, consisting of ten experts appointed by the board of managers.
When coffee is received at a licensed warehouse, two official graders are chosen, one by the buyer and one by the seller.
The rules provide for eight standard grades; and only licensed graders are permitted to pass upon the product handled on the Exchange.
These graders receive four cents a bag if employed by a member; and eight cents a bag, if employed by a non-member.
Many were killed by the white hunters to furnish meat for the railroad graders and the troups at the frontier forts.
While our fourth-graders out performed their peers in other countries in math and science, our eighth-graders are around average, and our 12th-graders rank near the bottom.
Cindy Perry teaches second-graders to read in AmeriCorps in rural Kentucky.
I was bound out on a buffalo hunt to get meat for the graders twenty miles away on the railroad, and I kept right on going.
It was hard to descend from the rank of millionaires to that of graders and buffalo hunters, but we had to do it.
With a host of other sixth-graders throughout the city Willie had striven that day for a prize of ten dollars in gold offered by the public-spirited A.
Willie Downey's head was bloody but unbowed; three seventh-graders he had vanquished in one round.
Many of the graders were old soldiers, and a little fight only rested them.
Scores ofgraders dropped their tools and started off on a trot.
The graders followed close upon the heels of the engineers, so that by the time the track-layers met the two grades paralleled each other for a distance of two hundred miles.
Mr. Dunlap: There are several graders on the market, and for all I know, giving good service.
I figure I'd better give E-T a full twenty-six hour rotation interval to come up with something before the next step.
Right now we're having a little zero-gee drill; keeps the boys alert.
When I'd finished, Interstel had regained its reputation.
Standing alone on the open promenade outside the dome, I was grateful that I couldn't see the sky--and the ominous stars that were not so far away.
She had once seen the track-graders trooping back, wet to the skin, worn out, and clogged with soil to the knees, to the reeking shanty which was filled with the foul steam of drying clothes.
Road graders and rollers are the modern inventions necessary to permanent and economical construction.
There were about two thousand five hundred graders employed in 1867 in addition to four hundred and fifty track-layers and from this number up, until the completion of the road.
The graders worked as much as two hundred miles ahead of the track.
The Union Pacific Railroad located their line to the California State line and had their graders at work as far west as Humboldt Wells, Nev.
While the level country enabled rapid progress to be made in grading, it was almost impossible to bring forward the requisite material to keep up with the graders and track-layers.
Every man on the work was armed, and it was the custom for the graders to carry their guns to and from their work, keeping them stacked within easy distance while at actual work.
The town was very rough last night--the company had paid off the graders I was told--and there was no carriage, so we were compelled to walk.
After some talk, most of it pretty vigorous, it was decided to order all of the graders to leave town without delay, except Pike, who was to be kept in the car until the outcome of Allenham's wound was known.
I turned out across where the gradershad had their camp.
Heavy blade graders designed to be drawn by a tractor are suitable for shaping the earth road.
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