Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adams House Music Society showed Wednesday evening that it is not hard to draw 250 or more people and hold them engrossed throughout two informal and informative hours of music taken from the 12th to the early 16th centuries. Such an event would have flabber-gasted the composers; most of the pieces were written for the private entertainment, either between dinner courses or postprandially, of small groups of nobility. Impresario John Hollander, a Junior Fellow, chose a representative group of thirty-six short pieces, mostly from the first volume of Professor Davison's rich Historical Anthology of Music...
Other finishers for the Crimson today included Jim Cairns, 12th; Dick Wharton, 17th; and Captain Frank Nahigian, 18th...
After yesterday's meet, McCurdy called this year's squad much superior to last year's team which finished 12th...
This year's Crimson is entirely different from the team which finished 12th in the IC4-A meet last year. Last season McCurdy built his team around Captain Hal Gerry, but this season, he is counting on a nucleus of about six men to carry the team...
Through the 11th and 12th centuries, Burma's great empire at Pagan shone glamorously in its own context; in the 13th century, Tartary's Kublai Khan casually ordered it snuffed out. As casually as Kublai Khan, Red China's Liu Shao-chi recently marked counterrevolutionary Burma for conquest by renewed infiltration. Red China is already pulling Burma's Communist remnants back toward its border, to a "Yenan" redoubt where they can be reinforced and rearmed. Chou En-lai is pressing U Nu to sign a non-aggression pact that will help sanctify Red China...