Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country's historic development. The first Japanese gardens were polychromic, glowing with the blossoms of plum and cherry trees, calm with the gentleness of willows, luxurious with the gaiety of bright flowers. But a warrior class crushed the rule of the aristocracy at the end of the 12th century, and Japan's classic era faded into its middle ages. The warriors wanted no part of luxury, opened their gates to the disciplines of a religious philosophy imported from China: Zen Buddhism. Austere Zen masters became the new architects; the garden lost the color of blossoming trees and flowers...
Died. Prince Filippo Andrea Doria-Pamphilj-Landi, 71, last male descendant of the main branch of the famed Doria family, which traces its history to 12th century Genoa, owner (in Rome's Palazzo Doria) of one of the world's most celebrated private galleries (included: Velásquez' portrait of an earlier Pamphilj, Pope Innocent X); of arteriosclerosis; in Rome. A bitter antiFascist, who condemned Mussolini's war on Ethiopia, he suffered 15 years of mistreatment by Fascists, became wartime "underground governor" of Rome and, appointed by the Allies, the city's first postwar mayor...
John Holden had the fastest time at the Brown meet, taking first place with a time of 51.3 seconds, two seconds faster than his nearest opponent. Phil Creery completed the snowy course in 54.5 seconds, tying for fifth place. Acting captain Alfred Arkley finished 12th in 57.4 seconds, while the varsity's fourth man on the slopes, Tad White, was 19th with a time of 61.5 seconds...
BOSTON, Jan. 21--Virgil Akins knocked weary Tony DeMarco into virtual fistic obscurity tonight with a 12th round technical knockout in a brutal rematch of welterweights at Boston Garden...
...system, Schaus has turned out an extraordinarily well-balanced team, e.g., all five starters regularly score in the double figures. The balance was neatly illustrated at week's end when Coach Schaus's boys had such an easy time drubbing George Washington University, 93-66 (for their 12th straight) that G.W. Coach Bill Reinhart marveled: "They have everything a great team needs...