Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school board's office; Auto Salesman John Taylor Coggins, 39; Samuel G. Beavers, 49, a carpenter at the state mental hospital; and Truck Driver Jesse R. Perry, 24. Convinced of his case against all five, Gene Smith saw each arraigned on $50,000 bail, announced that a fourth dynamite attempt (against an office building occupied by the Prudential Insurance Co.) had fizzled when the dynamiters were scared away by heavy downtown traffic...
...When they were still the greatest shows on earth, he moaned, big-time U.S. circuses had billets for something like 1,000 clowns, but the survivor, Ringling Bros., now uses only about 35. "The kids don't see any future in clowning," said Kelly, but he had a fourth ring up his tattered sleeve. "There is a new field that offers possibilities. That's the shopping center. Entertainment for those neighborhood centers is getting to be a big thing. I'm thinking of getting up a unit to tour them...
Only recently have scientists realized that most of the universe is neither gaseous, liquid or solid. It is plasma, a lively, tricky, often dangerous state of matter whose distinctive characteristic is that its particles are electrically charged. Scientists call it "the fourth state of matter,'' because plasma follows its own peculiar laws, responding to electrical forces and creating them. The sun and stars are mostly plasma; so are many loose particles moving in space between them. In fact, cosmologically speaking, only in a few exceptional places does matter settle down and become electrically neutral. But since the human...
...changing radically from the "egg crate" method of locking all students by age in one grade under a pass-fail system. The new method: the "ungraded school," which usually means eliminating grades one, two and three (as in Marblehead, Mass.) and using ability grouping by subject. In Torranee, Calif., fourth, fifth and sixth graders are being lumped together in a "multigrade" school so that children of different ages can stimulate each other. In East Alton, III., small groups of six to ten move at their own pace; children who reach seventh grade ahead of time take "enrichment" courses...
...months), offering to invest sums as small as 38?. With 400,000 buyers enrolled, British fund assets jumped 50% in the past year alone, to $336 million. Among newcomers to the capitalist class are thousands who still have no bank accounts. A poll of investors showed that one-fourth left school in the grammar grades. So radically has the British attitude toward buying shares in capitalism changed that even the Laborite Daily Herald in its financial column now urges mutual funds as a good place to put working-class savings. The Tories are delighted, well realizing the obstacles that such...