Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problems of technique. Wood is grainy. It favors continuous, compressed shapes with a strong axis along the grain. Anything that sticks sideways from the block-an arm, say-is weak and splits off. Hence the elongated, torpedo-like form of a Shinto deity from Japan's Kamakura period (12th-14th centuries)-a courtier, oddly clownlike in his peaked cap and baggy pants, but carved with a reductive formal elegance that might have inspired Brancusi seven centuries later. All its shapes are circumscribed by the block; one could roll it downhill...
Sophomores who lived in the Yard last year get preference next with twelfth choice students first. South House is the only House which was assigned 12th choice students. Shirley Brener, South House secretary, yesterday said the exact number of twelfth choice students is "highly confidential...
...author confirms a suspicion probably held by most people: to understand even a tiny blot on the elaborate escutcheon of heraldry, one must be a herald. The author, director of the German General Roll of Arms, explains the code of identification that was already fiendishly complex in the 12th century. It is no use. Even introductory definitions flutter toward mystification ("Fountain. A roundel barry wavy argent and azure"). Fortunately, the book's 1,700 illustrations fill this simple information gap with a tournament of griffins rampant and bends sinister. They may be best perused couchant (lying down but with...
...Charles' banks were the scene of color and pageantry yesterday as over 2800 contestants in 670 racing shells streamed up the river for the 12th annual "Head of the Charles Regatta." It was a parade of talent--Olympians, champions, collegians, and coaches--outshining any group that has met or will meet in the Cambridge area for some time...
Fell's research shows that Iberic was the near-universal language of North America by the 12th century A.D. Fell says that Iberic inscriptions are "practically everywhere you look" on the continent...