Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dental Museum, for two years; to assist in perfecting measuring instruments for ascertaining the natural development of normal bone growth in a child from birth so that a comparison of the normal average bone growth of a healthy child may be made with those which are abnormal, to the twelfth or thirteenth year...
...twelfth green. A ball glistened 15 feet from the pin. It was Gunn's. Another huddled in the sand of a nearby pit. It was Jones'. Both had played their third shots. The champion was one down. He grasped a niblick and walked into...
...retiring tees still further back. How had he liked the look of that shaggy carry to the sixth green, or that oblique yawn in the eighth fairway that it took 450 tons of sand to fill? Had he often made a more perilous march than down the 601-yard twelfth, where they had smoothed the deep bunkers to dissemble innocence and the far pin retreated like a mirage...
...implication was patent. At the Polo Grounds, Manhattan, the referee, bending above Pugilist Tom Gibbons, had looked with shrewd and not unkindly eyes at his split mouth, puffed face, smashed nose, blotchy body, put a question to him. In 30 seconds more, the bell would start the twelfth round of Gibbons' battle against Eugene Tunney, a handsome fellow with a pompadour, a mild face, who sat facing him from the opposite corner of the ring. Tiered in darkness, 40,000 watchers perspired freely. They saw the solicitous referee bend above Gibbons. They saw Gibbons shake his head. The bell...
Tonight's program will be as follows: 1. Introduction to Act III "Lohengrin" Wagner 2. Overture to "William Tell" Rossini 3. Jota Stoessel-Jacchia 4. Fantasia, "Fedora" Glordano 5. Twelfth Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt 6. Rachem (Invocation) Manna-Zucca (Orchestrated by A. Jacchia) 7. Scherzo, "The Flight of the Bumble Bee" Rimsky-Korsakov 8. Ouverture Soiennelle "1812" Tchaikovsky 9. Selection, "Carmen" Bizet 10. Valse Triste Sibelius 11. French Military March Saint-Saens