Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Chicago was a poor second with 41 men, while the University of California, with 31, had a narrow edge over Columbia's 29. Yale ranked fifth with 28, and Princeton was twelfth with 22. When the ranking was adjusted to the size of the colleges, Harvard dropped to ninth place, having 3.28 men honored for each 100 on the staff...
...tracked down to its written origin, and for the commoner of them he has provided a wealth of chronological tables and documentation. The most tenacious of the legends represented Virgil as an humiliated lover, suspended in a basket from his mistress' window. This appeared, in varying forms, from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, everywhere with a local colour of its own. Scarcely less widespread was the story that Virgil had devised an ingenious lie detector, the bocca della verita, in the form of an animal's head which bit off the finger of anyone guilty of falsehood...
...Scientific Circle is the "oldest book club in America today." Chautauqua music lovers hear their own symphony conducted by Albert Stoessel. a Little Symphony conducted by Georges Barrere, solos and lectures by Ernest Hutcheson, John Erskine, many another. Plays presented by the Cleveland Playhouse included last year Hay Fever, Twelfth Night, There's Always Juliet. Walter Hagen described Chautauqua's 18-hole golf course as "one of the best in western New York." Outdoor sports are permitted on Sunday as on all other days. "An administrative committee ... is laying the foundation for a distinguished [1934] program, surpassing...
Tonight the Instrumental Clubs will hold their twelfth annual concert and dance at 8 o'clock in the Commander Hotel. Atreus von Schrader '34, who has been president of the Clubs for two years, announces the following program: "Veritas March." "On the Mail," and "Goofus," by the Banjo Club; Herbert's "Serenade," and "A Petits Pas" by the Mandolin Club; "Schneider's Band." The Gondoliers," and "Two Grenadiers" by the Vocal Club," "Make Believe," "Sophisticated Lady," "Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet," "Puddin' Head Jones," and "Indian Summer" by the Orchestra. As specialty presentations, Malcolm G. Holmes 3G, an accomplished...
...Twelfth Night," Professor Murray, Sever...