Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon this sort of writing spread all over Western Europe, and it was not until the 12th Century that the arched and spired letters of Gothic script began to replace it. Minuscule never vanished entirely. In time, Gothic became so intricate that papal bulls were almost illegible, and each was usually sent out from the Vatican chancery accompanied by a duplicate written in another hand. The writing used for the translation was merely a variation on the Carolingian theme-the slanting chancery calligraphy of men like Ludovico degli Arrighi...
Lowell House showed surprising depth in being able to place men in second, third, ninth, 12th, and 23rd positions to keep their scored down to a low 49. Second place Dunster had a 79 point total, one point less than Leverett...
Wrung Dry. "Imitation after imitation of Miss Bowen's magnificent novel went into exercise books - stories of 16th Century Italy or 12th Century England marked with enormous brutality and a despairing romanticism. It was as if I had been supplied once and for all with a subject." At 14, a story had made Graham feel what most children learn much later, if at all. "Goodness has only once found a perfect incarnation in a human body and never will again, but evil can always find a home there. Human nature is not black and white, but black and grey...
College sailors will take part in the 12th annual competition for the Wood Trophy tomorrow at New London. The otler competing crews in the regatta will be Brown, Coast Guard, Dartmouth, and M.I.T...
...learned the 13 points of the creed of the great 12th Century rabbi, Maimonides, the Jewish Aristotle: the belief in God's existence, in His unity, incorporeality, timelessness, and approachability through prayer; the belief in prophecy, in the superiority of Moses to all other prophets, in the revelation of the Law and its immutability, in Divine providence, Divine justice, the eventual coming of the Messiah; the belief in the resurrection and in everlasting life. He memorized the civil and canon law of the Talmud in great early-morning gulps, often leaving home at 5:30 a.m. to study...