Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greenough's George Washington [TIME, Nov. 19]. Quite naturally you missed it, for I believe I am the single custodian of a visual memory of the event I have in mind. It was on a winter day back in 1908. Late in the afternoon I crossed Pennsylvania Avenue at Twelfth Street. Not only was the air crisp, but a gusty wind was swirling a sudden downpour of snow. Up the avenue from the Capitol came a huge dray drawn by six white Percherons?an unusually large hitch even for those horse days. Reaching the sidewalk I turned to give...
Last week, on the twelfth day of headlong Chairman Biddle's term, a bill of complaint in equity was filed in Attorney General Cummings' name against the Houde Corp. in Federal Court in Buffalo. In three different ways the Government asked that the firm be judicially directed to deal with the A. F. of L. union alone. Houde was given 20 days to answer. Thus was the stage set for the first round of the first legal test of the Labor Relations Board's collective bargaining creed, a test the final round of which would undoubtedly...
Even the 55-year-old squabble between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Gran Chaco must end some day. Last week it looked as if Paraguay, with one-third the population, one-eighth the area and one-twelfth the wealth of big Bolivia, had a chance to win. A combination of dumb Bolivian politics and smart Paraguayan tactics had lured Bolivia into making a terrible mistake...
...inscribed copy of the English Prayer Book. With this as a last act, Lady Jane drew near the scaffold on Tower Hill, beholding on route the gory body of her husband, who had preceded her to the block. The execution took place, amidst popular lamentations, on the twelfth of February...
Jaako's Varsity men found their handicaps too great to overcome, and Bob Playfair, who lowered the mark set by Arthur S. Pier '35 in the Holy Cross Meet, finished in twelfth place. Playfair, who started from scratch, established a course record of 21 minutes, 50 seconds...