Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There 80-odd scholarly Europeans and Americans had a marvelous time. For Mount Holyoke, long a home of ultra-serious-minded education, was trying earnestly to take the place of Burgundy's 12th-Century Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, until 1939 a sort of Chautauqua for Europe's top-drawer intellectuals...
...anyone has found any likely prospects in the room rent ads in the Herald of the Globe, you can contact our former rearder somewhere between the 11th and 12th bridges down from Soldiers Field...
...Last day of classes this semester, Saturday, May 8 (three weeks from tomorrow). From Sunday, the 9th through Tuesday, the 11th will come a pre-exam "reading period" (no classes), during which beer will flow freely at the club (not gratis, but like water). Final exams come Wednesday, the 12th through Saturday, the 15th. Then, an inter-term recess of three days (16th, 17th, and 18th) when, we hope, the travel ban will be lifted so that we may see what's happened to the Big City since last time we saw Jamaica...
Doctors said that a change in Gandhi's diet from sour lime juice to sweetened juice on the 12th day had stopped his nausea and possibly prevented his death. Gandhi himself said: "God intends me to live...
...regions . . . over water and uninhabited areas . . . deep into hostile and heavily defended areas ... with complete disregard for his personal safety . . . [often] acting as observer, navigator, photographer and radio operator," Major General James H. Doolittle pinned the Distinguished Flying Cross on Lieut. Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, commander of one of the 12th Air Force's photographic units in North Africa...