Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...role of delegates from the Netherlands and Australia, the Harvard representatives joined 400 students in the twelfth annual session of the mock assembly. Basil R. Pollitt '40 was elected a member of the Continuations Committee...
Into a jam is precisely where Stagehand got. With able Jockey Jack Westrope up, he was twelfth at the start, eleventh at the half-mile post, still in the ruck coming into the stretch. But the wiseacres had not counted on Stagehand's fine sense of drama. In time's nick, like the hero of a Wild West thriller, Stagehand lengthened out, swept wide around the pack, past Sun Egret, past Dauber, won by half a length...
...total assets which FDIC has in hand to wager amount to some $385,000,000, of which about a fifth has come from assessments (one twelfth of 1% per annum of total deposits) on those 13,800 U. S. banks which are now insured. In case of another crisis such as 1933, the FDIC could issue its bonds, notes or debentures to a total in one year of $975,000,000. Thus FDIC has or can raise a maximum of a billion and a quarter dollars as an anchor to windward for some 20 billion in deposits. Whether the anchor...
...waiting for the earthly parts of themselves to pass away, and for the great metamorphosis into their eternal forms to overtake them. When the lovely heroine leaves her funeral and joins the dead, life as well as death is philosophized upon. She goes back to her family and her twelfth birthday, and there and then bewails the blindness of men and women, and their insensitivity to the great human values lying in great wealth all about them...
...child with a temperature of 104.5°; 2) a nurse who gave baths, accompanied by vigorous twisting and mauling, to a man with a fractured skull; 3) a nurse who thought that three one-quarter grain tablets of morphine made up a prescribed dose of one-twelfth grain...