Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Behind the violence at Amiens lay a desperate effort by France's right wing to strike back at Charles de Gaulle on the mainland. They were on the run in Algeria-the bastion from which they had defied the prewar Third Republic and toppled the Fourth. By last week De Gaulle had: CJ Scrapped the 100,000-man Algerian Home Guard, whose members manned most of the barricades in the recent insurrection...
...Unthinkable!" one London newspaper called it when the rumor first popped up a month ago. But last week, only a few days before her third child was expected, Queen Elizabeth II announced her "will and pleasure" to the Privy Council that certain of her descendants, not in line for the throne, be permitted to bear the name of her husband's house as well as of her own. By the intricate provisions of the royal declaration, Britain would not see a Mountbatten-Windsor for three generations, but that did not make the change of name any sweeter...
...Oakville (Canada's largest factory, with a capacity of 140,000 cars a year) to tailoring shops in Toronto-more than $6.7 billion worth of goods a year, 29% of the nation's manufacturing output. They mail one of every four letters in Canada, pay one-third of all federal income taxes. They proudly call the area "the Golden Horseshoe...
...underlie all natural phenomena," make these understandable to children by "direct intuitive perception." He first tackled the concepts of position and direction, developed a course called "coordinates." He taught teachers to hook their index fingers together and pull. Said he: "That's the beginning of Newton's Third Law."- Using his curriculum's careful exposition of contact, field and frictional forces, teachers and pupils brought wood blocks, rubber bands, magnets, Band-Aid boxes and buttons to class, found them suddenly interesting as demonstrations of physical laws...
First-graders could grasp only qualitative ideas, but Karplus' second-level curriculum (second, third, fourth grades) introduced numbered quantities through use of such devices as rubber-band scales made in class by the pupils. By the sixth grade, the children were innocently testing the influence of orbit size on centrifugal force...