Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scientist William Beebe and 48 companions on an exploration of the deep sea (TIME, Feb. 16, Mar. 9, 16, 30). The Arcturus had traversed the Caribbean, threaded the Panama Canal, headed down for the Humboldt Current off the coast of Ecuador. A week passed, ten days, eleven. On the twelfth day, the U. S. Naval Commandant at Balboa, Panama, notified the Navy Department at Washington that two unnamed ships had relayed to him by air some intelligence from the Arcturus. Next day, the ship reported direct to Washington, stating she was off the Galapagos Islands (730 miles west from Ecuador...
...revolution unfurled its desperate banners; and, by the twelfth day of the following year, China, the oldest of monarchies, had become a republic. Dr. Sun did not get what he wanted out of the revolution; he formed a separate republic in the south and kept up the spirit of revolt against successive administrations in Peking. It was this attitude that earned for him the soubriquet of "the perpetual rebel...
...blessing. So thinks the Russian Ministry of Education, at all events. Of late the Ministry took the Russian alphabet in hand, examined it for superfluous members, pruned here, excised there, threw five letters out bodily, published a new, curtailed alphabet which shortens the written Russian language by one-twelfth and makes its spelling "twice as logical." It was pointed out that had not illiteracy abounded in Russia, the Ministry would have encountered the same difficulty faced by the late Theodore Roosevelt
Only eleven of the jurors impaneled for the trial decided on the verdict. The twelfth suffered a nervous collapse and was forced to leave the box, counsel agreeing to continue with a jury of eleven. Two of the jury were married during the trial. A special act of the Massachusetts Legislature gave the jurors extra compensation on account of the prolonged neglect of their business. Verdict was given for the plaintiff in $10,534,109 damages...
Outside and Inside were two sides of that startling event?the collapse of Miss Aida Jenkinson, actress, on the night on which she was to have realized her life's ambition by appearing as Viola in Twelfth Night. Instead of being page to Duke Orsino, she put on an air signifying that Duke Orsino was page to her; she cut all other parts with mighty shears; she threw out her lines like strings of sausage out of a sausage machine. But on the great night itself, after splitting her green jacket up the back, Actress Jenkinson collapsed in a heap...