Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bradbury, 16 (see cut). All through school Eva Mae had sat in with other classes, had never really had a room or a teacher of her own. The first year of high school she took second-year subjects; in the second year, first-year subjects. Third and fourth years were similarly reversed. In third year, as the junior class, she supplied the annual supper for the seniors: counting teachers and friends, there were 25 mouths to feed...
Before the 1941 Derby, Ben told Jockey Eddie Arcaro to "take it slow around the far turn. This horse can be last at the head stretch and win for you." Actually, Whirlaway and Arcaro were fourth heading into the stretch, but they put on a breathtaking charge and won by eight lengths...
...does Professor Edward S. Deevey explain it all? Well, says he, during the fourth glacial age the flora and the fauna of England and of Ireland, which at that time were part of the European continent, took the cold and perished. Then the ice melted and the sea rose isolating Ireland and England. Fast moving little hedgehogs, shrews and stoats came galloping from Europe to Ireland across a narrow bridge of land before the sea closed in. As for the slower snakes, they got only as far as England. And that, should the professor be right, was no better than...
...sketched out. A popular form is the "prophecy story," in which the consequences of man's inventive ingenuity in, say, rocket ships, are thought out. Subject matter ranges from the zoology of other planets to apocalyptic portraits of the world after it has been destroyed in the Third, Fourth or Fifth World...
Although two-thirds of the teachers belonged to at least one teachers' association, less than 13 percent held membership in any science organization for teachers. One-fourth of them hadn't read some of the most important publications in the field, while only one-sixth regularly read the most popular scientific journals...