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Word: twelfths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brown edged out Williams for second with 110 points to 109 after a protest against Williams in the twelfth race. Dartmouth came in fourth with 105 points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DINGHY SAILORS SIXTH IN REGATTA ON BASIN | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Having with unwonted consideration first told Congress that there was a Depression and that he meant to cure it, a few hours later last week, the President told the country. Result was his twelfth "fireside chat," delivered from the diplomatic room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chat | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...London, meanwhile, there were two bye-elections last week, one in which the Conservative member was returned without any opponent having dared to stand against him, another in which the Conservative candidate was defeated by Laborite Dr. Edith Summerskill, who thus becomes the twelfth female M.P. Dr. Summerskill had fought her Labor campaign as much as possible in the vein of defending handsome young Conservative Anthony Eden against the Conservative Prime Minister, so His Majesty's Government were chagrined to lose this bye-election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Chamberlain's Hat | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...university's General Alumni Association. Three hundred copies were distributed before police routed the distributors. On the Journal's cover was a large portrait of bald, pince-nezzed, light-skinned Dr. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, first Negro president of the 71-year-old institution, now serving his twelfth year, and beneath it in large letters: "The Case Against President Mordecai W. Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Trials of a President | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. March 23: Harvard students are among those who have been invited by the University of Virginia to apply for all-expense scholarships in the twelfth annual Institute of Public Affairs, which will be held here from July...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL-EXPENSE SCHOLARSHIPS OFFERED HARVARD STUDENTS | 3/24/1938 | See Source »

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