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  • n  a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days

  • In a Rome clinic last week lay Myron Charles Taylor, 66, slowly convalescing from his second gallstone operation in a twelvemonth.
  • Despite the touted fiscal straits of Britain, news came last week that the "Big Five Banks" have opened an average of one branch bank each week for the past twelvemonth.
  • The present twelvemonth, 1929, is his "Jubilee year"the 50th since he first celebrated Massand therefore devout Catholics hoped, last week, that by next Christmas the .

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