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Word: twelfths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guidance that many struggling firms need as badly as money. His aim is to make them so Dig and fat that they no longer need him. In the process, his own company has grown big and fat: this week it announced record earnings of $2.74 a share, the twelfth consecutive yearly record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Man Who Likes Risk | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

Died. David M. Hall. 41, Freshman Congressman from North Carolina's Twelfth District, who pursued his career in spite of being confined to a wheelchair from the age of 15 because of osteomyelitis, undergoing surgery 200 times, finally developing cancer; in Sylva...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 8, 1960 | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

...famed, culture-heavy Third Programme, which rents records of its shows to the foundation for $1 a disk. This week Gilbert and Sullivan fans can hear a BBC D'Oyly Carte broadcast of Patience, and Shakespeareans will hear Stratford-on-Avon's Shakespeare Memorial Theater company do Twelfth Night. Next week WBAI will play a tape, made in Europe last summer at the Bayreuth Festival, of an uncut (close to five hours) performance of Wagner's Die Meistersinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: WBAI in the Sky | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

What woman do Americans most admire? For the twelfth year, according to Gallup pollsters, the answer is the same: Eleanor Roosevelt, 75, by her customary wide margin. The distinguished others, in the order of their mention: Mamie Eisenhower, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Clare Boothe Luce, Helen Keller, Madame Chiang Kaishek, Patricia Nixon, Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Singer Dinah Shore. Tied for tenth spot in the survey: Monaco's Princess Grace, Britain's Princess Margaret, India's Madame Pandit. Gallup pulse takers announced the results of their similar quest for the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 4, 1960 | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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