Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With 40 families at his buck skin back, Boone treks over the Cumberlands, founds the village of Boonesborough. The land is as fertile as the Red skins are hostile. Stout Boone protects the settlers in many a brush with Indians, kills more than one warrior, narrowly misses death a dozen times, is once captured by Shawnees, escaping in time to render great service to beleaguered Boonesborough. This is the best sequence in the picture. On fire after a nine-day siege by Indians and renegade whites, Boone's stockade is saved by a heavy rain-a deed of Providence...
...Columbia, as President Nicholas Murray Butler's academic procession made its solemn way across the Morningside campus, a dozen striking members of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers, armed with placards shrieking that COLUMBIA IS UNFAIR TO THE PAINTERS' UNION, wheeled impudently into the rear of the procession, followed it to McMillin Academic Theatre where they stayed outside to picket. Meanwhile in another corner of the campus the radical American Student Union planned to hold a mass meeting, incite Columbia students to strike from their classes unless Dr. Butler and Dean Herbert Hawkes reinstated Junior Robert Burke...
...Yankee hitting. For nonexperts, the question was even simpler. For them, as it is likely to be for baseball historians, the 1936 World Series was a personal struggle between Hubbell and Gehrig. Lean, morose Carl Owen Hubbell is currently baseball's No. 1 Pitcher and among the half dozen ablest in the game's annals. Jolly, thick-legged Henry Louis Gehrig is the game's No. 1 batsman. Even more remarkable than the freak that made this year's World Series antagonists so geographically close and so temperamentally remote was the freak that made it include...
...best pitchers in the league. In most of them his teammates made less than five runs. All 16 were achieved in the thick of an uphill fight to win the Pennant. The ten victories which preceded Hubbell's string of 16 were of the same class. The half dozen games in which he was defeated, he lost, with two exceptions, by margins of only one run and without allowing his opponents to score more than three...
...little self-portrait remained in the Holbein family for generations, was not known to the world of art until 1930 when Art Expert Dr. Paul Ganz cleaned it, published its photograph in a magazine. Since then museums and private collectors in a dozen countries have been anxious for it. The only other absolutely authentic Holbein self-portrait is a watercolor in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence...