Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twelfth time the U. S. had won the Davis Cup, put up in 1900 by onetime U. S. Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis...
Creating at Yaddo last week, at mid-season of the colony's twelfth year, was a typical group of writers and artists who have given substance to Katrina Trask's vision. But whether or not they fitted Katrina's romantic conception was an open question. By contrast with aristocratic Katrina and the elegant capitalistic surroundings she provided, most of the season's 27 guests stood out in striking left-wing contrast: Poet Kenneth Fearing (Angel Arms, Poems), Critic Newton Arvin (Hawthorne), Novelists Joseph Vogel (At Madame Bonnard's), Leonard Ehrlich (God's Angry...
Last week the Dictator made him Honorary Commander of the Twelfth Artillery Regiment, an honor usually reserved for high visiting dignitaries...
Every man of the Twelfth Artillery Regiment and a great galaxy of German Army chiefs turned out in Berlin for the rehabilitation of Fritsch, his return to a status in which he can again become, as he was for some years, the general around whom other German generals rallied in their frequent moments of friction with the Nazi Party. The generals, especially Fritsch, have always in the past opposed bold Nazi strokes-like remilitarization of the Rhineland-which might lead to war should the Hitler bluff be called. The recall of Fritsch, however, was susceptible of another interpretation: that...
...order to make air-minded but temporarily air-sated readers even mildly interested in the twelfth transatlantic flight in the past month (Lufthansa's four-motored Focke-Wulf "Condor" Brandenburg, from Berlin to New York City and return), newspapers were obliged to run banner headlines about SECRECY. Even this ruse failed to excite thorough readers. Day before, they had seen an Associated Press dispatch announcing the exact hour of departure, predicting the time of arrival within three hours...