Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short of ratification. Starting with the 18th (Prohibition), most proposed amendments have carried a seven-year time limit for approval. This was no problem for the 21st Amendment; it swept through in less than ten months for the happy reason that it repealed the 18th. Fastest of all: the twelfth (separate electoral vote for President and Vice President), which in 1804 set the record of 187 days. Slowest: the 22nd (limiting Presidents to two terms) which took almost four years to get the nod in 1951. Newest of all: the 24th (barring poll taxes in federal elections), ratified 13 months...
...committee will choose almost exclusively on the basis of the games that the 15 teams considered best in the East have played against one another. B.C. and B.U. lead with 15-3 records against these so-called Division I schools, while Harvard is in twelfth place...
...telephone with Robert Gordon, U.S. embassy counselor in Tanzania's coastal capital of Dar es Salaam. Their conversation was, of course, being tapped. At one point they expressed mutual regret that the State Department had not sent good wishes to Zanzibar's Boss Abeid Karume on "the twelfth"-the first anniversary of the coup d'état that gave him power on Jan. 12, 1964. Carlucci explained that celebrations of the coup had been postponed because of Ramadan, the Moslem month of fasting. Answered Gordon: "Well, make sure Karume gets the message on the second twelfth...
...interim report released for discussion by students and faculty, the Phillips Exeter Academy planning committee has recommended admitting 250 girls in the eleventh and twelfth grades...
When he took over last month as chairman of West Virginia's Wheeling Steel, said Simon, he found the nation's twelfth largest steel producer in sorry shape. Wheeling's profits have dropped by almost 50% since last year despite a slight rise in sales, and its stock has dropped from 41 to as low as 23¼. In fact, Simon frankly told a special meeting of stockholders in Manhattan, the company may lose up to $8,000,000 next year, dividends will have to be suspended for several years, and much time and new financing...