Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...circumference) and world's record watermelon (183 lb.). Another reason is Texans' fierce pride in their past, in the heritage of Austin, Travis, Houston and other heroes who tore away from Mexico, a century ago this year, the land which was to become more than one-twelfth...
...declined to give U. S. goods the benefit of her minimum tariffs. The French reduced their quotas on U. S. goods when Depression hit harder. U. S. dollar devaluation made matters worse. Last year France was the fourth largest U. S. market, whereas the U. S. was only the twelfth largest market for France. But even in 1910 U. S. exports to France were higher than in 1935, and as far back as 1901 France exported more goods to the U. S. than it did in 1935. What both governments earnestly hoped for was a speedy return to old times...
When the 13th impeachment was voted by the House last month (TIME, March 16), Chairman Hatton W. Summers of the House Judiciary Committee declared that Senate proceedings in the twelfth impeachment, of California's Federal Judge Harold Louderback in 1933, had been "the greatest farce ever presented." At one point 93 out of 96 Senators were absent from performance of their rarest and highest Constitutional function. Washington still believes that Judge Louderback was acquitted partly because many a Senator declined to vote guilty on evidence which he had not heard. Last week, stung by Chairman Summers' rebuke...
Irak. On a plain beside the muddy Tigris lies Tepe Gawra ("Great Mound") in which trial trenches have indicated 20 or more settlements extending far back into the Stone Age. After clearing the Eleventh Level with gratifying results (TIME, March 18, 1935), Digger Charles Bache proceeded with the Twelfth Level, dated at 4000 B. C. Here were massive walls coated with plaster, earliest known use of lime, and much pottery decorated with reddish geometrical designs, presumably left by "The Painted Pottery Peoples" who first overran India, Persia and Mesopotamia about 6000 B. C. A sharply emerging concept of personal property...
Last week certain people in Milwaukee were saying, as they have said many a time in the past, that Mr. Hoan wants to destroy the U. S. Home. For Mr. Hoan is not a wholesale grocer or an insurance salesman but the longtime Socialist Mayor of the twelfth city of the land...