Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mount Newman that assayed at almost the maximum possible purity. Australians had long known that iron ore could be mined in their country, but not until finds like Hilditch's did they suspect that it existed in such phenomenal abundance − an estimated 20 billion tons, about one-twelfth of the world's known reserves. Three years later, Australian legislators repealed a ban on iron-ore exports once enacted in the belief that there was only enough for domestic needs. Two big iron-ore mines opened up and, following the pattern of previous mineral exploitations, were dominated...
...Shakespeare needed the experience of writing the inferior Love's Labour's Lost before he could produce this middling play, he had to write Much Ado and the similarly middling As You Like It before he was able to follow them up with the miraculous gem he called Twelfth Night. Still, Gill and his charges had me believing for a stretch of two-and-a-half hours that Much Ado is really a good play--and that is no mean achievement...
...pound to the lower limits set by the International Monetary Fund. The prospects of another franc devaluation-the eighth since World War II-caused French bank notes to sell at a 10% discount abroad, and the price of gold in Paris reached record highs. French reserves fell for the twelfth consecutive week, while German Bundesbank reserves jumped by $400 million. Only the strict French currency controls prevented a much sharper shift out of francs and into marks...
When the play opens Aggravain is rejecting the twelfth applicant for Princess. But Dauntless's single status cannot continue forever--no one in the land can marry until the Prince does, and Sir Henry needs to marry Lady Larkin--quick...
Little is known of his personal life and habits. Reportedly, he has two grown children from an earlier marriage. His present wife, plump and fortyish Yeh Chun, was named twelfth in the order of those attending the congress. She is the best friend of Chiang Ching, Mao's wife...