Word: 14th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there adequate description of the dark forests in which the story of early medieval Europe was enacted," he claims, forgetting that both John Ruskin and Oswald Spengler made the point long ago. The Renaissance was the product of nasty weather. Rain, cold, floods, plagues, famines, sunspots flourished in the 14th Century. Result: Giotto, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, the Medicis. Confessed Leonardo da Vinci: "All the genius that I have comes from the air [climate] of my native province." When the weather cleared, Italian genius dozed off again in the sunshine...
...green carpeted suite on the 14th floor sat Wendell Lewis Willkie, a tousle-haired Peter the Hermit in a rumpled sack suit, waiting for news of his crusade. He lounged in a big chair, his feet propped up on another, his coat gradually inching up his big back...
...clock. To the crowd in the ballroom, watching the board, the bitter, bad news was becoming apparent. Willkie's crusade was going the way of Peter the Hermit's. A desperate, dutiful note crept into the cheering. Slowly the crowd began to thin. On the 14th floor, sprawled narrow-eyed in his chair, the candidate chain-smoked, answered questions absently...
...Angeles, with the temperature at 90°, Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College, rated No. 1 in last year's Associated Press poll, registered its 14th victory in a row, over the University of California at Los Angeles...
Last week the 14th annual tournament of the Professional Tennis Association, staged at Chicago's Town & Tennis Club, proceeded with professional smoothness. Surviving the quarter-finals were Barnstormers Don Budge (playing in his first pro tournament), Fred Perry (1938 champion), Big Bill Tilden (winner in 1931, the year he turned pro), John Nogrady, a young upstart from Montclair, N. J. Nogrady, a teaching pro, would probably have been eliminated earlier had Barnstormer Ellsworth Vines, defending champion, been among the contestants. Vines, who had been playing golf all summer, had not entered the tournament...