Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Benevento, the precious, 1,100-year-old Cathedral (three stars) was blown skyhigh, along with its famed 12th-century bronze-sculptured doors...
Internal Revenue agents slapped a lien on belongings of Edna E. Booten. income tax consultant, charged that she was delinquent $1,450 in paying her taxes. In Detroit, firemen of the 12th Street station vainly battled a blaze in their own quarters, finally dashed away and telephoned the fire department...
...First Army which had been shifted to Field Marshal Montgomery's 21st Group during the Battle of the Bulge. Shaef censors let out a delayed dispatch saying that the coiled American Ninth, also once part of Bradley's command, remained under Britain's Montgomery in the 12th Army Group...
Sergeant's Surprise. With Company M of the 12th Infantry, Private Krueger took part in a 25-mile advance from Angeles to Tarlac, Aguinaldo's capital. But Aguinaldo had fled, and the 12th pursued him vainly all the way through Luzon's central plain to Dagupan on Lingayen Gulf. To the Madison Courier Krueger wrote excellent descriptions of the campaign, explaining: "Undoubtedly you see a good deal written about . . . the Philippines, but I thought, although many professors may have their theories about these islands, 'a fool here knows more than six wise men at home...
...custom of describing symptoms and treatment in verse persisted until books were common; tests in verse were easy to remember. Some 12th-Century medical advice from Italy's School of Salerno...