Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surround herself with just such big weatherbeaten Scotsmen as Captain Robert Gilmore ("Jock") Latta of the Empress of Britain. Twenty-seven years ago, "Jock" Latta joined the Canadian Pacific fleet as fourth officer of the S. S. Montezuma, 8,360 tons, 480 ft. long, speed 9 ¾ knots. His twelfth and biggest command is the Empress of Britain, 42,500 tons, 758 ft. long, speed 25.3 knots. On her maiden voyage to Quebec she broke the Britain-to-Canada record, crossing in 5 days, 5 hr., 40 min. With other ships she stacks up thus...
...single in the sixth, and a total of four in the seventh when they batted around, Cutts allowed the Harvard team but three scattered hits. He weakened in the seventh and eighth to allow Harvard four runs per inning, but weathered the hard going to win in the twelfth...
...marmalade, was consumed by red ants while they slept. Bitten raw by insects, torn by thickets, nearly starved, the men pushed on through the swamps until, on the eighth day, Quaranta collapsed, out of his head with fever and suffering. Di Robilant struggled on, was found on the twelfth day by an Indian and four white fugitives from justice. Next day di Robilant was strong enough to lead his benefactors to the rescue of Quaranta. The latter, to escape further torture, had hung himself with his belt...
...first match of the season, the 1934 golfers lost to Exeter by the score of 7 to 2 at Exeter yesterday. The summary: M. F. Health '34 defeated Barber, Uup, eighteenth hole; Uullman defeated G. P. Bentz '34, 2 and 1; Wilson defeated H. D. Dorsay '34, 1 up, twelfth hole; Freeman defeated E. H. Taylor '34, 2 and 1; Williams defeated Bradley Collins '34, 2 and 1; T. D. Sullivan '34 defeated Warren, 1 up, twenty-third hole...
...free to confess that in the treatment of professors at Rollins College we do not carry out this Twelfth Century program anything like completely, but its underlying idea--namely that professors are made for the students, not students for the professors--is likewise the idea at Rollins...