Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them impressively blue-blooded. Vicki was so overwhelmed that at one point she announced: "We may end up by taking back more than one." But last week Vicki and Elliott got themselves in hand and hired just one, the first candidate, Lord Nugent, whose family goes back to the 12th century...
...England's only educational television station is the 12th in the country to start operations and can reach an estimated 1,250,000 homes in the Boston area, according to Parker Wheatley, general manager of the station. For the past two months the station has been conducting closed-circuit test programs...
...after many months, the developer reached its destination. By that time it was March 1952. Don't Skip. In selecting their material, Daly and Donnelly tried to avoid duplication. "But just when we were ready to skip something," says Father Daly, "up would pop something important." In a 12th century Bible, they found the musical notations of a choir master, "all of great value to students of musical history." In one of the many copies of Galen's works, they found that marginal notes of a 13th century physician offered innumerable clues to the medical practice...
...instance, the case of the mayor, the priest and the hearse of Civrac. Scratches & Mildew. In 1935 Father Jean-Rene Lagrave came to the village of Civrac-en-Medoc (pop. 580) in southern France, and took up residence in the parish house beside the beautiful, red-tiled, 12th century church. Plump, pink-cheeked Father Lagrave, 64, played his violin, said his Mass, baptized, married and buried-and all was well. All was still well when tall, lean Henri Mamour was elected mayor. Mamour was a freethinker, but that did not stop him from including in his election platform a pledge...
...Crimson team composed of Richard C. Anderson '56 and Robert M. O'Neil '56 placed 12th in the National Debating Tournament at West Point this weekend. Thirty-three other teams, the winners of nation-wide elimination tournaments, also competed in the final round...