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Word: twelfths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...club, careful to mix its shots, has produced such classics as Everyman, Twelfth Night, Dr. Faustus; such a novelty as W. S. Gilbert's Tom Cobb, or Fortune's Toy; such modern plays as Biography, High Tor, The Petrified Forest. Last week it tackled John Webster's difficult Elizabethan horror play, The Duchess of Malfi, proved itself braver than Broadway, which last produced the play in 1858. (Two seasons ago Orson Welles planned to do it, got cold feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Braver than Broadway | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...ldig borg." To conquer not only England but most of what is now the Baltic States was the bloody feat of Denmark in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries under her Hero-Kings, Cnut the Great and the Valdemars. In the 13th Century valorous Norwegians led by Haakon the Old seized Greenland, Iceland, the Orkneys, the Shetlands and the Hebrides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORDIC STATES: Mighty Fortress | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Lightbody Twelfth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Harriers Smear Holy Cross, Taking Seven Out of First Ten Spots | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

...McLoughlin, Bob Jay (last year's Freshman captain) and Kay Rogers took eighth, ninth, and tenth places. Jim Lightbody, quarter-miler, who will captain this year's, track team, registered in twelfth place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Harriers Smear Holy Cross, Taking Seven Out of First Ten Spots | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

...spreading muddle a twelfth G. M. plant was struck, making a total of 7,500 key workers out. And a significant, warlike new development came: A. F. of L. sent 30 experienced building trades organizers into Michigan to make a heavily financed assault on U. A. W. of C. I. O. They will work with A. F. of L.-convert Homer Martin, the youthful ex-preacher, who as National A. A. U. hop-skip-jump champion (in 1924 and 1925) was known as "The Leaping Parson from Leeds" (Kansas). This explained to observers Mr. Martin's nonchalance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dress Rehearsal | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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