Word: datedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After setting the current school year as the date for full integration, Superintendent Carmichael that year launched with his staff into a public-speaking campaign to explain what he was doing to P.T.A. and civic groups, veterans' organizations and church bodies. To take some of the sting out of integration, he told parents that they could choose whatever school they wanted their children to attend, provided it could accommodate them...
Britons sometimes like to forget that their proud island was once a mere peninsula of the European continent-a condition that, as geologists figure it, ceased only a short time ago. Dr. Harold Godwin of Cambridge has now estimated within a few centuries the date when the friendly sea broke through to form the English Channel and give Britain its freedom. It was 5000 B.C., says Dr. Godwin...
...thousand years ago, says Dr. Godwin, the last remnants of the Pleistocene glacier held out in the higher mountains of northern Britain. Plant remains of this date show that the country was open, arctic tundra with scattered patches of silver birch. Sea level was much lower. Peat dredged from the bottom of the North Sea shows that the southern two-thirds of its basin was filled by a chilly swamp connecting Britain with the continent, from Denmark to France...
...melted much bigger masses of ice in Siberia and North America. The water released raised the sea level, and the Atlantic Ocean ate its way southward over the "Doggerland" in the basin of the North Sea. By examining peat from the sea bottom, Dr. Godwin can tell the date when the salt water flowed over each...
Television networks will throw around more money this fall and winter than ever before, put on more spectaculars, more color, more old movies ($150 million worth) than have ever been seen. It will, quite obviously, be the biggest season to date. A sampling of shows to come...