Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dusty". The Calcutta Sweepstake (lottery on the Derby), most famed British sweepstake, amounted to about ?70,000 for the first prize and was won by one Captain Burman, a real estate agent at Kenya Colony. The Derby (a race of about 1½ miles) was instituted by the twelfth Earl of Derby in 1780 and has been run regularly ever since, at first on the last Thursday in May or the first Thursday in June, but since 1838 on Wednesdays. The stakes were first fixed in 1890 when a minimum of ?5,000 was set each year with the number...
...Twelfth Street...
...Demonstration Courses, begun last year Proved very successful, and three more have been added. These classes are composed of children from the seventh to the twelfth grades, summer school students having the privilege of enrolling for observation. These demonstration courses may be taken in addition to a full programme, but they do not count towards a degree...
...Twelfth Street...
...Robert Seymour drawing, dated 1836, picturing one of the earliest balloons; several children's books containing rare samples of the work of Caldecott, the famous English illustrator, and an eighteenth century "Twelfth Night," illustrated by George Cruikshank, are among the most interesting features of the exhibition...