Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only will all reading rooms stay open, Adams announced, but one-fourth of the School's 180 courses will be taught in the new library thanks to an intensive scheduling of classes in the air-conditioned building...
...water battle was David I. Coombs '49, who leaned out of his fourth-floor window and cascaded water down on two Dunster men. One were bathing trunks, and the other was well protected by a rain coat and an inverted grocery...
...tried to win unity by conciliation and persuasion. In this he had largely failed. Louis Johnson had moved in like a combine advancing on a field of summer wheat. He set out "to crack a few heads together," and he did so by bold and brusque decisions. In his fourth week in office he ordered the Navy to scrap its biggest dreamboat, the $188 million supercarrier, United States, and ended naval aviation's dream of striking at the heart of any enemy with the atomic bomb. The strategic bombing role would go to Secretary Stuart Symington...
...Nationalist defenders had announced: "We will fight to the last drop of blood." Most Shanghailanders fervently hoped that this promise would not be kept. They regarded the Nationalist cause as hopeless, and feared that a prolonged defense would bring nothing but pillage and destruction to the world's fourth* largest city...
...Thorn spoke before the fourth plenary session of the Seventh International Congress on Rheumatic Diseases at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York...