Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bright on successive days, Ellsworth Vines put out Frank Shields, twelfth ranking U. S. player and Richard Norris Williams II, twice (1914, 1916) national champion. He beat Shields with a spurt of brilliance after a slow start. In the first set he seemed indifferent. After a point had been settled he would shamble back to serve or receive with an absent expression, bored, disinterested. Once in difficulties, he showed his best game. Against Williams he lost the second set but then roused, ran away with the match. Next day he beat Hunter for the second time in a week. Erratic...
...When the Twelfth International Congress of Secondary Education finished sessions at Brussels last week many a new plan for bettering educational systems had been mulled over, debated. Principal defects noted in present systems: 1) Most secondary school pupils are overworked...
Built at a cost of some $12,000,000, the new building which looks north up LaSalle St. ("Wall St. of Chicago") is the twelfth home of the Board of Trade in its 82 years, is not owned by the Board but by the Chicago Board of Trade Safe Deposit...
...organization of public-spirited citizens under municipal patronage, presents its twelve-week al fresco repertoire of light opera and operetta, locally called "Muny Opera." One night last week, St. Louis playgoers motored, taxied or bussed into Forest Park to witness the premiere of the "Muny Opera's" twelfth season-Sigmund Romberg's Nina Rosa, which recently had its debut in Chicago. Observers at rehearsals beheld the new production manager, Milton I. Shubert, nephew of famed Producers Lee & Jake Shubert of Manhattan, trotting nervously about the wide stage, castigating carpenters, bellowing at ballerinas. A characteristic Shubert addition...
Each & every child in the U. S. and Canada whose twelfth birthday comes this year is eligible to march into a corner drugstore or a Kodak Shoppe with its parent on or after May I and demand to be given, free, one special Model C "HawkEye" box camera and film-roll to match, made by George ("Kodak") Eastman or Rochester, N. Y. (TIME, April 14). The Hawk-Eye is sold to all persons over or under twelve this year for $1.25. If all the twelve-year-olds are honest and do not go from store to store to get more...