Word: eighth
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...relevance" means something deeper than "newspaperliness," then it must mean potential for understanding and control over life. In this sense, a relevant arithmetic problem in an eighth grade text might be: The curves in Fig. 6.48 give the values of apparent crater diameter and depth in dry soil as a function of explosion veiled. Given a 20 KT surface burst over sandstone, find the crater dimensions. (Effects of Nuclear Weapons, 4th ed.) Such a reorientation in education might alter the balance of interest on the part of children away from TV or comics toward school...
This is the Arlo Guthrie Book. 95 pages. Amsco Music. $2.95. A letter about love to his draft board, his eighth-grade report card, pictures of Arlo with his father (the late Woody Guthrie), pictures of Arlo singing, words and music to his songs-especially Alice's Restaurant-all provide delectations and deliriums for Arlo admirers...
...League teams beat the Crimson today. Penn put together a good effort to come in eighth, and Princeton was 19th. Harvard had soundly beaten both twice this fall...
...trying to make it up, and had two good opportunities in the third quarter, one off a corner kick and the other off a penalty kick, but the Elis blew them both. A fine play by Crimson goalie Bill Meyers off the penalty kick preserved the shutout, Harvard's eighth of the season...
Today's game marked the demise of another record and lengthened one mark the Crimson already had set. Meyer's eighth shutout broke the record of seven, and the team's twelfth victory increased its winning streak...