Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First Presbyterian (Fifth Avenue at 12th Street). It was here that Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, ordained Baptist, preached his famed Anti-fundamentalist sermon which might have split the Presbyterian church...
...land of Acre," the Metropolitan Museum of Art has found better examples of 12th and 13th century A.D. war, commercial and household goods than it had been able to find in Europe, where such things have been destroyed, lost or remodeled. Palestine, in those bleak centuries, was a European province. Leading crusaders lived luxuriously and busily. When the Mohammedans finally drove them out, their goods were abandoned. Looters could not find them all. Hence the Metropolitan Museum's delvers made rich cultural finds at the isolated fortress of Montfort, old headquarters of the Hospitalers of Our Lady...
Mother Spreckels proved to be prolific. Of the many children, Rudolph was the 11th or 12th. He is unable to recall which. He does remember, however, that he was an asthmatic child, too delicate to go to school regularly, whose one ambition was to be a millionaire in his own right. At the age of 17, he began to realize his ambition...
Married. Alexander Szabo, for the 12th time; at Budapest, where he is a famed actor. "God made me to be a husband," said he to reporters, "and all my wives helped me to pass my days agreeably...
...Representatives because no candidate had a majority of electoral votes. Aaron Burr managed to delay the election of Thomas Jefferson to the Presidency, in the House, because, though it had been agreed that Burr was the Vice Presidential candidate, no distinction was provided for in the balloting. The 12th Amendment, passed in 1803, ratified in 1804, required the members of the Electoral College (or of the House if the election went there) to distinguish their choices for President and Vice President...