In both schools the subjects pursued in American schools in the first five grades have been taken up, with much attention to English.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were occupied with examinations in all thegrades and departments, which afforded abundant evidence of a year of faithful and fruitful work.
No better way of separating the grades appears than to raise Main Street and carry it over the railroad.
At the northern end, the separation of grades will be facilitated if the tracks of the Pittsburgh and Western Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad can be lowered a few feet.
The Flood Commission is getting data for studying the question of a protective embankment along the river front, and of the proper grades of streets and bridge approaches in the region subject to inundation.
At the southern end, the grades make such a change very simple.
In the absence of complete and accurate information as to grades and distances throughout these two routes, it is impossible to say which is to be preferred.
The more bridges are raised above that standard, apart from any question of first cost, the greater will be the interference with travel across the river, up to the point of prohibitive grades on the bridges and their approaches.
The sizes of vessels were evidently increasing rapidly, to necessitate this change in the number of grades of mariners.
By this scheme the proceeds of prizes taken before 1808 were to be divided into five shares, besides the flag shares, which were to be divided among five grades of seamen.
The remainder is to be divided equally among eleven grades of officers and seamen.
Those taken after 1808 were to be divided into eight shares and in the same manner distributed among eight grades of seamen.
The precarious and conflicting grades fixed by individual and associated buyers were the source of incessant dissatisfaction and complaint.
These were reground and “bolted” into two or more grades of flour.
It was charged that the association buyers not only undergraded, but also reduced the prices for lower grades out of all just proportion.
Already the conditions imposed by the unions in the interest of a reasonable standard of living act as a strong differential against the mining of difficult seams and poor grades of coal.
Far more mines producing better grades of coal are being worked out than there are new mines commencing to produce.
Margery Marshall, although Lydia's age, was not a good student and was two gradesbelow her.
The ward school, comprising children of only one neighborhood with the grades small, was a democratic, neighborly sort of place.
The children of the first and second grades cut out pieces of paper in inch lengths.
That is why your teacher had radish beds for the lower grades in the school.
Will it be absurd to ask him to deduce from nature, as it is found to operate, that the various grades of subjection spread through the animal world exist in conformity to the natural law?
The different species and all the varieties of man are nothing but a short history of their different grades of organization and development.
The grades of physical development are proofs of grades of mind.
The beard, among men the attribute of a full maturity, largest in the Caucasian, is scarcely found among the lower grades of the African.
But even the lowest grades yield their obedience, and are protected from greater evils.
She is just as bright as Carolyn, though her gradesare not quite as high.
Betty's grades were good, for not once had she fallen below the honor list, thanks to pride and the stimulus of pleasing her parents.
There will thus be grades of beauty as there aregrades of reality.
And as for the lower and simpler grades of feeling for nature, given that the conditions of life are "natural," they are practically universal, though often inarticulate.
And mystic intuition will have corresponding grades of dignity and insight.
It will have been apparent in what has preceded that there are many grades of intuition, rising from sense-perception to what is known as ecstasy.
We must not imagine, however, that the failure to distinguish the hues and grades of blue argued any lack of appreciation of the quality of pure, translucent depth which characterises the clear sunlit sky.
All beings are thus essentially akin, but differ in the grades of consciousness to which they attain.
Intuition of various gradesis at the base of all mental development.
We may safely conclude, therefore, that intuition in all its grades necessitates a specialised soul-activity as well as a specialised soul-passivity.
Coming now to the quartz gems we find amethyst and citrine, or golden quartz widely distributed so that only the localities that furnish the better grades of these stones need be mentioned.
This would be the case with stones of the grades from 1 through 4 in the list above.
While the cheaper grades of indestructible pearls have but three or four layers of nacre, some of the fine ones have as many as thirty or more.
While some of the blue stones about to be described may resemble inferior sapphires, none of them approaches the better grades of sapphire in fineness of blue coloration.
This method of figuring the value of pearls is used only for the cheaper grades and small sizes, however, and the method first explained, the calculation per grain base, is the one in universal use for fine gems.
When the pearl was completely peeled it was gently rubbed with three grades of polishing paper, each finer than the previous one, and then the writer was allowed to examine it.
Firing a fat locomotive up the grades around Siwash with bad coal gives a man great talent in expression.
He'd come to his university without any real preparation--you know even in the best regulated institutions of learning they sometimes get your marks on tackling mixed with your grades on entrance algebra.
There were three grades of emotion plainly visible.
There were but few children in Soviet Russia who are not attending classes in grades from kindergarten to high school.
To us the extracts from these authors, preserved in Seneca, present the most wearisome monotony, but contemporary criticism found in them many grades of excellence.
The railway servants' leaders decided on May 16 to demand the recognition by the companies of their trade union, a forty-eight hours' week, and an increase of wages in all grades by 5s.
The western tier of this section, Rooms 43-51, contains work of allgrades of merit.
Not that they were bad roads, for the grades were perfect, but they did seem endless and they were still one-sided roads, with a drop into space just a few feet away, not always with protecting walls.
On the steepestgrades and elbow turns we dropped back to second, but never to low, and there was no lagging.
But there were no steep grades and the brinks were protected by solid little walls.
It was a long way to the lower levels, and some of the grades were steep.
First, when she has completed the lowest grades of her regular public school, she may go for a while to the North Bennet Street Industrial School.
His men of all grades soon conceded that he knew best what to do, and set about doing it accordingly.
A chain of command is not created by the subdivision of the officer corps into grades on a basis of relative rank.
From the several grades of the officer corps, a permanent chain of command is instituted by the process of organization, the supreme command being reposed in a commander-in-chief.
Most safety powders require special treatment, while most grades of dynamite and all ordinary forms of black blasting powder are readily analyzed by the usual methods.
A number of engines at present on the market use kerosene; some use only the lighter grades and are at best comparatively less efficient than gasoline engines.
It will probably be found that no one of the 4-stroke cycle, or 2-stroke cycle, engines is best for all grades of oil, but rather that each is best for some one grade.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grades" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
