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Word: 12th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...giant slalom yesterday morning, the Crimson's Greg Peters, Steve Blodgett, and Peter Gagarin came in 10th, 11th and 12th as Harvard finished behind only Middlebury and Dartmouth. Jon Chaffe placed 3rd in the afternoon's 9-mile cross-country run, and was followed by Jim Sise in 13th and Bear Barnes in 15th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Team Doing Fine | 2/19/1966 | See Source »

...from Christ's unequivocal condemnation of the Mosaic right of Jewish husbands to banish their wives at will: "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." Still, it is hardly a surprise. The bonds of Christian matrimony have been slowly loosening ever since the 12th century church began granting annulments and separations. At Luther's urging, the Protestant Reformation approved secular divorce for grounds of adultery or desertion. Such Catholic countries as Italy and Argentina still ban divorce, but many others, from Japan to Sweden, have reached the point of permitting divorce by mutual consent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE SORRY STATE OF DIVORCE LAW | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

Junior John Hardcastle was next for Harvard in the downhill with a 12th place. Ken Brown and Humphrey Morris, also Crimson freshman, finished in the 16th and 17th spots in the downhill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Skiers Capture 3rd, 4th In Wildcat Race | 2/8/1966 | See Source »

Varsity alpine captain Mark Jensen, who missed all of last season with a broken leg, finished a disappointing 36th in the downhill but led all Harvard skiers in the slamon event by placing 12th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Skiers Capture 3rd, 4th In Wildcat Race | 2/8/1966 | See Source »

...have been made at Ras Shamra (meaning "hill of fennel") in northern Syria. There, since 1929, archaeologists led by Dr. Claude F. A. Schaeffer of the College de France have been painstakingly digging up the remains of the ancient Canaanite city-state of Ugarit, which was destroyed in the 12th century B.C. A neighbor of ancient Israel, Ugarit had a language closely allied to Hebrew, and an elaborate, sophisticated pagan religion to which references are found in many passages of the Old Testament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bible: From the Hill of Fennel | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

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