Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Recovery would have been much quicker," according to Harris, "and we would have saved billions of dollars each month had we attained the 1957 level of output by the third quarter of 1958 instead of, as now seems likely...
Professor Skinner makes an example of the rudimentary type machine in teaching a third or fourth grade pupil to spell the word manufacture. "The six frames are presented in order, and the pupil moves sliders to expose letters in the open squares...
...definition and an example. When he copies it correctly, the second frame appears. Now he has to be selective in his copying; He must see the common root of "fact" in "manufacture" and "factory." This helps him to acquire what Professor Skinner calls an "atomic verbal operant." In the third frame another root must be perceived. In four and five the student must put down letters without assistance. In frame six the student fills in the whole word to make the sentence which he knows from the first example...
Herb Parsons of Lowell took first among the individual runners. Dunster, which was second in the November fifth race, dropped to third place, finishing behind Winthrop in team scoring...
...observed a non-reading critic in the discussion afterwards, "the narrator's authority of voice in the first work has no advantage over the conscious semi-abnegation of the possible total event knowledge on the author's part in the third story...