Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporter in the adjoining room, but between speaker and hearer the message made 40 trips between Manhattan and Philadelphia (3,800 miles), the frequency being shifted to a different wave length after every round trip. Then 20 frequencies were poured on the cable at once- which taxed only one-twelfth of its maximum capacity. Even when voices were lowered almost to a whisper, practically no distortion was noticed...
Died- Billy Papke, 50, oldtime (1907-08; 1911-13) world's middleweight boxing champion, Los Angeles saloon "greeter"; by his own hand (revolver), after shooting and killing his divorced wife Edna, 46; on Balboa Island, Calif. Against Champion Stanley Ketchel in 1907, Papke scored a twelfth-round knockout after punching his opponent's head instead of shaking his hand, as they entered the ring. Ketchel punished him severely in a return bout...
Born. To Emmett ("Red") Ormsby, 41, American League baseball umpire; and Mrs. Helen Ormsby, 39: their eighth daughter (twelfth child); in Chicago. Weight: 111b...
...another Blue runner trailed him to the tape, while Hayden Channing and Henry March followed him in close order. Their times were respectively 27:16, 27:20, and 27:22. Fritz Rosengarten, the Princeton captain, succeeded in getting only the twelfth spot over the wet course...
...first man home followed by George Quinn of New Hampshire and Jim Wallace of the Hanoverians. Henry Marcy was the first Harvard harrier to finish taking fifth spot. He was followed by Hayden Channing in ninth, Roswell Brayton in tenth, BBI Wright in eleventh, Charley Worth in twelfth, and John Erhard in thirteenth...