Word: thirteenths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mystery of Thirteen, it proved cold, cold ground. David Shaw's version of Robert Graves' They Hanged My Saintly Billy recounted the actual career of an English rogue, gambler and forger named Dr. William Palmer, who was hanged in 1856 for what was rumored as his thirteenth murder by poison. Graves argued that Palmer was the victim of circumstantial evidence. Intentionally or not, the TV version left no doubt of his guilt, and it tried to mitigate Palmer's villainy with the charm of skilled Actor Jack Lemmon. All the Lemmon twists could not make palatable...
...exception, the most thoroughly base and despicable form that civilization has yet assumed... The Byzantine Empire was preeminently the age of treachery." It has taken many years to overcome the stigma of Victorian moralism, and Byzantinology will probably never receive the vogue accorded Greek and Roman civilization in the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries...
...doubles combinations completed the Crimson's thirteenth victory of the year. Heckscher teamed with Mills to top Bullock and Don Seward...
...varsity tennis team journeys to Brown today to defeat the Bruins. After the wins of the past week, this match will be definitely anti-climatic, and will serve only to give the Crimson its thirteenth win of the season, and its seventeenth straight win since it lost to Miami last spring...
...University teams entered ranked thirteenth in a field of 40 teams from 30 colleges throughout the Northeast...