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Word: twelfths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pupils between the fourth and twelfth grades were enrolled in compulsory fitness classes. Every day the kids take 15 minutes of exercise; time spent changing clothes and taking showers does not count. After the quarter-hour of concentrated dashing, jumping, sitting up, pulling up and softball throwing, the students go back to class glowing with a sense of achievement. Says one 16-year-old: "We really did need this program. I mean, now we say to each other, 'How are you?' And the answer is 'Sore, but it's kinda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: Muscletown, Oklahoma | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

...acre swath through Southwest Washington. Some 4,657 families, most of them Negro, have been relocated. Beside NASA's new edifice, three other Federal Office Buildings are rising on Independence Avenue, and two more will be built by 1966. A new brick marketplace has replaced the flyspecked old Twelfth Street Market, and the Maine Avenue wharves, with their cluttered array of seafood houses, will give way to a broad promenade with modern marinas, shops and restaurants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: Washington Reborn | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

...first set of downs in the second half, when on a second down situation, Grans took the ball over left tackle at his own 46, was momentarily stopped at the Penn 30, and then broke into the clear to make the score 36 to 0. Ward kicked his twelfth conversion in twelve attempts to make...

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr., (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Crimson Tops Penn In 37-6 Shellacking | 11/6/1961 | See Source »

...theater will open its twelfth season with a workshop production of "The Portable Tiger" by Fireman Houghton '41, editor of Audience magazine. Alan Fox, manager of the non-profit organization, said nearly 125 actors auditioned for the play last Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theater Finds New Site for Workshop | 10/31/1961 | See Source »

...succeed. With his political credentials in apple-pie order, he was rewarded by the usually cautious critics with an instantaneous rave. Said Izuestia: "Just as today we feel an involuntary envy for the contemporaries of Beethoven, Paganini and Tchaikovsky, so will future generations envy us who first heard the Twelfth Symphony of Dmitry Shostakovich, the greatest composer of the 20th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Backward from Decadence | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

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