Word: twelfth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sort of hoped to have more girls place in fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth place," she said. "Instead, they placed more in ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth. But the times are improving with each meet. Our relay times were bested by as much as 7 seconds," she said...
...illustration of the current mood, Prager talks of a messenger who last week came crashing into a press office to report the announcement of the new ceasefire, the twelfth in two months. Half a dozen correspondents were sitting around a battered desk, engaged in a high-stakes poker game. They all looked up, shrugged, then anted up and went on playing...
...ratio throughout the College is one-to-one. The Yale plan not only eliminates student choice in Houses, it also severely limits roommate choice and diversity of acquaintances by populating freshman entries with students assigned to the same House. The prospective roomate pool is effectively reduced to one-twelfth of the freshman class...
...feats outdid Hollywood. There were Pinch Hitter Bernie Carbo's eighth-inning, three-run homer that tied the game; Rightfielder Dwight Evans' game-saving catch of a Joe Morgan drive in the eleventh; and, most Homeric, Catcher Carlton Fisk's game-winning home run in the twelfth...
...teammates, the Tigers jumped out in front early in the race to maintain a dominance that was never seriously challenged. Princeton speedsters claimed the first seven places, and Yale the next three before Harvard's Mark Graham (24:10) and Ed Sheehan (24:37) nailed down the eleventh and twelfth places respectively. They were followed by Dave Atkins (24:37) and David Sullivan...