Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each of the twelve stories in Conrad Aiken's latest volume of short stories, "Among the Lost People," is a different application of the above quotation from "Gehenna," the twelfth, which depicts the hell through which the human mind goes to find "consciousness which is pure suffering." The tales are told with an implacable, pseudo-scientific introspectiveness that almost suggests Poe. They are tales of madness, weakness, and failure--of a man half-drunk who succumbs to the temptation to steal some unwanted object is caught, and his life is ruined. ("Impulse"): pathetic souls who laugh insincerely or tell unimportant...
Thus was concluded the twelfth and final year of an archeological emprise which has revealed much about the Sumerians, oldest of known civilized peoples...
Continuing his impressive golf of the morning. Captain Mel Heath defeated Ferguson. Pennsylvania's number one man, 7 and 6 for his second victory of the day. Heath was even par when the match ended on the twelfth green. Robert C. Hunter Jr. '36, Melvin F. Hill, Jr. '36, and William F. Sibley. III '35, also were well below 80 to win their matches with case...
...twelfth day the skinny white mongrel rolled over, struggled to its front feet, barked a dismal bark. In a moment it crumpled up, but young Dr. Robert E. Cornish was delighted. Two other stray terriers which he had killed and revived in his University of California laboratory had died again for good and all within a few hours (TIME, March 26). But after being quite dead-heart stopped, breath stopped, eyes glazed-for four minutes on Friday, April 13, Dog No. 3 had been brought back to live day after day. This apparent miracle had been worked by means...
Pacing up & down his hot little laboratory, black hair mussed, clothes wrinkled, eyes haggard, Dr. Cornish's hopes waxed & waned with the dog's vitality. "I am afraid," he said dejectedly toward the end of the twelfth day, "that the dog will be an idiot the rest of his days...