Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ninth round then the tenth and the eleventh, it looked as though Sharkey were tiring, as though Schmeling had planned his fight well and might even be able to win as he pleased in the last rounds. Instead, Schmeling came out a shade more cautiously in the twelfth and Sharkey's savage, feline left paw began to flick his face savagely again. fought. The last Schmeling four was rounds fresher in were the last round, the fastest of a sharp but not particularly dramatic match. When the bell ended it. he ran lightly to his corner. Sharkey followed...
...horses .from being killed for fox farm food when the department was motorized. Died. Edward Everett Eslick, 60, Congressman from the ;th Tennessee District; instantly, of heart disease while addressing the House in behalf of the Bonus; in Washington (see p. 15). Died. Rev. Dr. Caleb Rochfort Stetson. 61, twelfth rector of Manhattan's Trinity Church; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Anglo-Catholic in his communion, Dr. Stetson was a foe of divorce, birth-control. He denounced large church weddings as "often vulgar as well as pagan." As head of the Corporation of Trinity Church, he administered the richest...
Results of the twelfth annual survey of the nation's department stores and specialty shops conducted by the Graduate School of Business Administration's Bureau of Business Research reveal that the last year has been featured by a sharp decline in the total sales and in the size of the average sale of 675 stores doing a business of $1,300,000,000. More than half, the stores reporting lost money, but well-managed stores of all sizes showed sizeable earnings...
...Lady of the Assumption sent a delegation to the New Bedford Chief of Police, who immediately reprimanded Rev. R. J. Kirkland, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene. Pastor Kirkland agreed to stop the lollypop luring, had never approved of it anyway. But Pastor Kirkland felt satisfied. In the twelfth week of the contest, attendance at his Sunday School totaled 1,373, to Maiden...
...nine capitals decorated with pure design show that combination of strength and delicacy, that supreme skill in execution, which is characteristic of the best Burgundian work of the twelfth century. In the figured capitals, however, the interest is even more intense. A brief discussion of the iconography or subjects depicted will be of interest...