Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twelve gates admit respectable pedestrians to the cloistered precincts of the Yard, and day and night eleven of the twelve stand open, to all appearances guarded with no extraordinary rigor. Not so the twelfth. Religiously the watchdogs of the college swing shut at stroke of six the iron portals that front the Holden Chapel between Lionel and Mower Halls, and make them fast for the night with monolithic chain and padlock...
...lecture on the History of Italian Culture Dr. de Bosis will first tell of the social conditions of the middle ages. From this phase of his subject he will go to the religious and artistic revival of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Dr. de Bosis will next explain the Italian "Communi" as the origin of modern democracy...
...book is in many respects the most fascinating of this great series. In "Arrowsmith," Sinclair Lewis has produced his best but by no means his most popular novel. He seems to give promise of writing better and preaching reform less. "The Tale of Genji," translated from the twelfth century Japanese by Arthur Waley, tells with great charm and delicacy the story of a royal prince with some of the characteristics of a Don Juan. It is curious to find so old a story so new, so alive, and so modern...
...professional faster, entered a glass case where he proposed to go 26 days without food. Eleven days passed. In that period 40,000 people had filed by, tantalizing him by munching cake, sandwiches, pickles, drinking bottles of beer and champagne before his brooding eyes. On the afternoon of the twelfth day a young woman came in eating a chocolate éclair. She nibbled, smiled at him, finished the last crumb and licked her fingers when suddenly wild Wolly arose and, swinging his chair over his head, smashed the case. Gendarmes conducted him to a hospital...
...water, mystic words and prayers, he had cured members of his faithful band of dreadful ills. Scientists explained that he was harmless; the annals of abnormal psychology are filled with such examples of monomania. Said a doctor who examined him: "I sincerely believe that if he lived during the twelfth century he would have been heralded as a saint, but as it is he is seized as a lunatic...