Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard defeat Dartmouth on the slopes this winter, now that Dartmouth's Dick Durrances and Eddie Wellses have become alumni. Four Crimson skiers placed high Saturday in the Eastern Amateur Ski Association open downhill meet at Stowe, Vermont, competing against the country's experts. Captain Bill Hinton finished twelfth in a field of thirty-two, with Gale Burton finishing sixteenth, John Pierpont, seventeenth, and Jesse Thomas, twenty-fifty. Of the quartet, only Pierpont is a senior, while Hinton and Burton are Sophomores. Thomas is a freshman...
...conflict is again religion, and the Church's relation to the people. The warmhearted, benignly sly old Canon of an Irish village has become paralyzed, and a younger man, Father Shaughnessy, comes to take over the Canon's duties. Glacial, snooping, bullying, Shaughnessy, like the Clown in Twelfth Night, thinks that because he is virtuous, there shall be no more cakes...
Never a P-D legman, ireful Editor Coghlan often wanders down from the eighth to the third (city room) floor to wrangle happily with reporters. He takes a boisterous but effective part in the periodic poker games of the "Twelfth Street Country Club," a group of P-D oldtimers. When he built his present house in the Ladue district he asked his friends if they thought he was getting too near a creek. They said he was. He built there anyway. The creek made him mad, too-came right into his cellar...
Born. To Dr. St. Louis Estes, 73, famed California food faddist (nuts, raw foods), and his wife: their seventh son, twelfth child; in San Francisco. Like all the other Estes boys, this one will be called St. Louis. Estes daughters have no first names...
...left. But Little Man Armstrong, looking like a pygmy, showed them that his famed strategy of getting in close and pounding away with both fists-fast, furiously and from all angles-is hard to solve, harder to beat. By the time Garcia succeeded in landing his bolo (in the twelfth round) it had lost...