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Word: 12th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard gained the seemingly comfortable lead of nine points in the third quarter. At 8:04, Bill Grana bucked five yards over left guard for the touchdown on the 12th play of an 83-yard drive. Ward split the uprights to make the score...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: Lehigh Downs Harvard, 22-17, On Breaks in Fourth Quarter | 10/2/1961 | See Source »

...gifts at her coronation hints at her ancient ancestry. But the real proof comes when we find that the function served by The Girl in our culture is just as much a 'religious' one as that served by Cybele in hers." Just as the Virgin in the 12th and 13th centuries sustained the ideals of the age, "so The Girl symbolizes the values and aspirations of a consumer society. (She is crowned not in the political capital, notice, but in Atlantic City or Miami Beach, centers associated with leisure and consumption.)" Not that Baptist Cox identifies The Girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Girl | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

Once a year, the Institute of Scientific Studies for the Prevention of Alcoholism brings together teachers, social workers, divinity students and temperance workers for a sobering review of U.S. drinking habits. Key findings at last week's 12th annual meeting, as reported by Temperance Crusader Andrew Ivy, University of Illinois clinical science expert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: A Billion Quarts | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...that loomed over a once thriving town. Most of the tiny sculptures that decorate it are still intact, but the fresco that presumably brightened the interior was long since washed away. The Cloisters was not dismayed: it already owned a magnificent fresco of a seated Madonna painted by the 12th century Master of Pedret. The fresco was a bit small, but once set in the new apse, it seemed perfectly at home. After 26 years The Cloisters had its golden treasure at last, almost as it must have been eight centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stone by Stone | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

...duel. On the murky first day, Palmer fired a fine 68; Player hung on with a 69. On the sunbaked second day, they swapped scores, and Player narrowly missed a hole in one when his tee shot soared over the creek in front of the par-three 12th hole, landed squarely in the cup and ricocheted 15 ft. away. At the halfway point, Palmer and Player were tied at 137, seven strokes under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Player Under Pressure | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

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