Word: thirteenth
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What delight it is to linger over William Sheldon's treatise on aerial navigation (Eng 5508.50.3) written in the middle of the 19th century, or John Ranking's "Historical researches on the conquest of Peru, Mexico, Bogota, Natchez, and Talomeco, in the thirteenth century, by the Mongols, accompanied with elephants" (London...
...mitigating factors do lessen the impact of last week's results, however. Harvard had split its best team up between two regattas, and bad weather combined with tricky winds fouled the Crimson sailors up badly. Besides, last Sunday was October thirteenth...
...playing maids and grandmothers ("I'm a great grandmother," she says ambivalently). Since she was a reedy 5 ft. 8 in. tall, she had to start as a crone if she had any hope of becoming an ingenue. She did anything at all, including a production of The Thirteenth God in which the 13 gods onstage regularly outnumbered the audience. Meanwhile, she checked hats at Lindy's, Leon & Eddie's, the Vanderbilt Hotel, the Old Rumanian Restaurant and Luchow...
...varsity track team minus Ed Hamlin, Chris Ohiri, and Jack Spitzberg faces a strong, but not quite strong enough, Princeton squad in Soldiers field at 2 p.m. this afternoon. The Crimson is a heavy favorite to win its thirteenth consecutive dual meet...
Liechtenstein, with a population of 17,000 covering sixty-one square miles, remains the only survivor of the 342 states that once comprised the Holy Roman Empire. The House of Liechtenstein dates from the twelfth century, and Crown Prince Johann-Adam will be the thirteenth monarch of his line when he succeeds to the throne some...