Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment of utter mutual incomprehension between two cultures. The Japanese felt that their principal art was being looted from them, and they were right. Hundreds of ancient swords, including 42 documented National Treasures made between the 12th and 15th centuries, vanished as souvenirs and have never reappeared. The Americans thought they were guarding against insurgency, and they were wrong. The Nippon-tō-"art swords"-were ritual and aesthetic objects, the core symbols of Shintoism, and would not have been used in combat...
...which choice is distributed" and that "if the distribution is similar to last year's, there will not be much difference in the results," Collier does admit that Rosovsky's method is more likely to result in fewer people receiving their first choice and more people receiving their 12th choice...
...dean's "minor alteration" is that it, like CHUL's suggestion to raise the Quad sex ratio, appears likely to exacerbate rather than solve the housing problem. Not only will freshmen with high lottery numbers be assigned to a Quad House which they very likely ranked 11th or 12th, but it is also conceivable that roommate groups whose first choice is a Quad House will not be assigned there...
...Dick Raines due to illness, the Crimson made a move for first on Saturday. Peter Anton streaked to a second in the slalom's second run. Overall he slipped into the top ten with a ninth. Allan Hale darted to a seventh place. Eric Jewett would have come in 12th but was disqualified for straddling a pole. His finish would have given Harvard a good shot at beating the victorious UMass contingent...
...went on for months, this falling asleep at four in the morning in a fiendish cloud of cigarette smoke, a rubble of beer bottles, light glaring and an Eric Ambler paperback folded across my nose. It wasn't until I'd finished gobbling the 11th or 12th Ambler goodie that I realized what had been going on. Not what was going on with the books--spy novels are easy enough to figure, God knows--but what was going on with me. I finally caught on to the twisted logic grown up between the Ambler fetish and my dropping...