Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite Reider's effort, the varsity finished a disappointing 12th, as Michigan State romped to victory. Dave Norris, the second Crimson finisher, placed 35th; Jim Schlaeppi, 89th; Dyke Benjamin, 104th, and Dick Wharton 137th...
Magdalen Madness. The "thing" that rocked Oxford (pop. 98,675) to its 12th century foundations last week was Duncan Sandys' audacious scheme, as Housing and Local Government Minister, for solving Oxford's appalling traffic problem. Ever since automobile and steelmaking factories sprang up around old Oxford's spires a generation ago, practically everybody has agreed that something must be done about diverting cars, trucks and buses from High Street before they shake down the ancient towers that line...
...First Rumblings. Presumably, the lesson of The Early Churchills is how Nobodies may become Somebodies if they have the right stuff in them. The very early Churchills were so obscure that Author Rowse dispatches five centuries of them in eight pages. One such was apparently a plain 12th century blacksmith, whose presence in the family tree the present Sir Winston has found "disquieting." The blacksmith's son married a widow a cut above him, and by dint of a few generations of such nimble marriages, the Churchills became gentry, landed but impoverished. The clan's private golden...
Dior to work in a mansion at 30 Avenue Montaigne. There, as L'Express Fashion Editor FranÇoise Giroud once remarked, diffident Christian Dior was "unknown on the 12th of February, 1947, famous on the 13th." The overnight event that made Dior: the New Look...
...middle of the 12th century the lot of the Jews was growing hard. Several massacres occurred, sparked, in part, by the old slander that Jews murdered Christian children in their rituals. In 1210 King John threw all the Jews into jail and extorted a ransom for their liberation, and from then on the barons usually treated them as a herd of cattle for milking. Several times, England's Jews were "sold" by the King to British lords, who were then entitled to squeeze as much as they could from them. In 1290 Edward I gave...