Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high arsenic content of the soil that these skeletons have been so well preserved," said a Sorbonne professor inspecting a cadaver whose clutching fingers showed the agony of his death. "This portion of the prison dates from the 12th Century, perhaps earlier." Skeletons sat upright against the dungeon wall. Some lay with heavy wooden collars about their necks, some were chained to blocks of stone...
Beautiful is the "Prayer of Maimonides," 12th Century Jewish physician-philosopher-teacher: "0 God, Thou hast formed the body of man with infinite goodness; thou hast united in him innumerable forces incessantly at work like so many instruments, so as to preserve in its entirety this beautiful house containing his immortal soul, and these forces act with all the order, concord and harmony imaginable. . . . 0, God, Thou hast appointed me to watch o'er the life and death of Thy creatures; here am I, ready for my vocation." Medical students study this prayer, along with the "Oath of Hippocrates...
...President Madison, the "Father of the Constitution," announced to the 2nd session of the 12th Congress the "pocket veto" of a bill passed at its 1st session, employing these words...
Twenty miles from London stands an historic hill and on it stands an historic Cathedral. Its dark cruciform shape lowers over the countryside, its Norman towers stretch sadly to the sky. It was in the 12th century that workmen first piled stone on stone to fashion the Cathedral of St. Albans. Since then many workmen and architects have rebuilt, altered and toyed, but the Cathedral still stands much as it was first planned by an abbot who wished to honor a martyred saint...
...week there was "news" in the Prudence Building; there were photographs of Mr. Smith's smiling face still in Manhattan newspapers. The news, personal, was that Mr. and Mrs. Smith will move, about July 1, to a new apartment building at No. 51 Fifth Avenue, corner of 12th St. The suite (10 rooms, 3 baths) is on the top story; it is believed that Contractor William Kenny (who supplied the campaign private car) will occupy the rest of the floor. Other close neighbors will be Tammany-leader George W. Olvany and Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen, both...