Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first Princeton runner to score was Captain Welles in twelfth place...
...planet Harvard was discovered in 1912. It is of the twelfth magnitude, which means that it is easily visible with a telescope of ten inches aperture. Probably, however, the object has never been seen visibly, although numerous photographic observations have been made...
...core of his poem, he took the story of "Der Arme Heinrich" a tale led by Hartmann von der Ane, a German nidnnesinger of the twelfth century. It the elaboration of this story says Longfellow. "I have tried to show. . ., among other things, that through the darkness and corruption of the Middle As ran a bright, deep stream of Faith, strong enough for all the exigencies of his and death...
...Netherlandic Majesty's Twelfth Regiment marched mile after mile with stolid precision one day last week toward Assen...
...earth's crust, uncomfortable in other places, twitched some more. It twitched under Maine for the twelfth time in two years, causing little damage. It twitched in Mexico, terrifying peons in Tehuantepec, who, instead of realizing that a mild earthquake now and then is really a good thing for mankind as it safeguards against catastrophic shocks, moved sullenly toward the hills muttering about the return of Quetzalcoatl, the bird-serpent, and other ancient gods. . . . Also, the earth twitched sharply last week in Greece, in Chile...