Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engineer, as head of the Belgian Relief Commission, which helped save the Belgian people from starvation in World War I. And it was in his role as a house guest even more than in his role of presidential representative that Herbert Hoover was able, as he delivered a formal Fourth of July address in the Grand Auditorium that night, to command attention and respect with a sentence: "I would not be your friend if I did not speak frankly...
There the families stayed while Tito led his guest off to the Bosnian Mountains to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the climactic battle between Tito's partisans and the German invaders in World War II. It was the two dictators' fourth meeting. The 40-year-old Nasser is obviously much impressed by the 66-year-old marshal, who so skillfully plays a fancy in-between role in the cold war, gaining alternately from both sides...
...Eighth Sea. The Great Lakes, long one of the world's busiest waterways, will grow even busier when deep-draft ships can steam directly from the ocean lanes into the ports of Toronto, Cleveland and Chicago in what trade promoters like to call the Eighth Sea, the Fourth Coast, the North American Mediterranean. The main payloads on the old 14-ft. canals - iron ore upstream from Labrador and wheat downstream to Montreal-will fill the holds of probably nine-tenths of the ships on the new canal. Seaway planners forecast a traffic load of 25 million tons...
...that the parent plants transmitted their characteristics to their descendants in a predictable, mathematical way. When purebred red-flowered peas, for instance, are crossed with white-flowered ones, all the seeds grow into plants with red flowers. But when these red hybrid plants are crossed with each other, one-fourth of their offspring bear white flowers...
...Blue eyes in humans are also commonly due to a single recessive gene. Dark-eyed people may have this gene in its suppressed state, obtaining it from an ancestor so remote that his blue eyes have been forgotten. When two such people marry, one-fourth of their children (statistically) will have blue eyes...