Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foot-sore Mormons So years before. In a stage coach rode the original "Deadwood Dick" Clark, now 83, proudly wearing his many-notched horse pistol, and the original "Poker Alice" Tubbs, now 76. smoking her big black cigar. Eleven appropriately furnished floats represented "The Parade of Nations." On a twelfth float was a large kettle decked with flags-"The Melting Pot." Beside the pot, as the Goddess of Liberty stood Miss Jean Redick, who also did service during the celebration as Queen of Ak-Sar-Ben and a Comanche maiden...
...Violet harriers have a powerful combination. Lerner and Hickey are the best material, the former having placed sixth last fall, while Shapiro and Phillips are very good. Cornell's chief strength lies in Levering, who was twelfth in 1928, and has shown even better work this season. Cornell defeated the Yale runners, 19 to 54, while the Crimson won from the Blue...
...assist in searching for hitherto unknown records of past Leonid showers. Dr. Fisher, known as Harvard's "meteor fisherman", believes that a great many references to the Leonids exist which have not been found. He has already received notice of a chronicle in Syria, made in Damascus in the twelfth century, and containing astronomical observations as far back as the sixth century. Information has also been received that there are sources in China, and possibly in Japan, Korea, and Russia. Chinese writings are considered of special importance...
...team. R. E. Jellison, a member of the Boston harriers, was the individual winner of the race, covering the distance in the good time of 23 min., 50 sec., 11 seconds later, his teammate, B. B. Sheridan, scampered across the final line in third position. A. H. Elliott placed twelfth. R. Greenleaf fifteenth, and G. H. Bradford seventeenth, making the team's total of 48 points...
This afternoon there will be a Freshman interdormitory cross country run. The first ten men to place will run against Yale, while the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth will receive a gold, silver and bronze medal respectively...