Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Over the centuries, many groups upheld this view (as against infant baptism, which became generally accepted in Christendom), among them the 3rd century Donatists, some of the 12th century Petrobrusians and Waldensians, the 15th century Bohemian Brethren. It was not until the Reformation that the issue really became heated, with the rise in the 16th century of the Anabaptists (literally, Re-Baptizers), a collection of sects that all opposed the baptism of infants, but that also opposed, variously, oaths, military service and the holding of public office. The sects were ruthlessly put down, but some (the Mennonites and Hutterites) regained...
...Latin Professor Clarence Mendell had bought the document in 1938 from London's E. P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd. Experts traced it back to Luxeuil, after that to the abbey library at Admont, Austria, where it had come to rest as part of the bookbinding of a 12th century manuscript. There it remained until 1937, when it was sold to Goldschmidt...
Experts agree that the parchment indeed dates from either just before or just after 700 A.D. Determining the age of the musical notations was a knottier task, since they could have been scratched in almost any time up to the 12th century, when that kind of notation went out of style. Infra-red and ultraviolet photography made the words and music assume about the same intensity, a fact that leads Schrade to believe that "at least the sub stance of the inks is basically the same," hence, that the neumes were written not long after the words...
...Young Men. Duggan brilliantly sets the scene: the turmoil of 12th century England, in which Norman rule was still insecure. Since the conquerors felt they must stick together, it was possible for an ambitious young Norman lad, though only the son of a Cheapside burgess, to get a helping hand from Norman nobles. Young Thomas managed to acquire both a knight's training and a lawyer's education, a combination which, while he was still in his 30s, had drawn him to the attention of England's brand-new young Norman King, Henry II. Redhaired, red-tempered...
...dick Wharton circled the 4.2 mile, up and down course in 21:45 and 21:48, respectively. Wharton, who entered the meet with a sick toe, led for the first mile, eventually placing tenth. Bob Holmes trailed the third Redman finisher, Tom Flynn, by one second to earn 12th...