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...yard grind also went to the Crimson, Vince Moriarty taking a 2:28.2 first. Groshong and Grey followed their teammate into second and third places respectively. Exeter's lone first came in the 600 yard run when Mitchell nosed out Edlemen of Harvard by one-tenth of a second to take the event in the time of 1 minute, 18.5 seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Tops Exeter as Squash, Mat Squads Lose | 2/19/1946 | See Source »

...peak the Japanese tide of conquest had covered approximately one-tenth of the globe, encompassed 400 million of the world's two billion population. Japan's Greater East Asia bubble had burst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: A Bubble Bursts | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

Last week Frenchmen got a grim report of progress in dealing with them. By last month's end, only one-tenth had been removed (by French workmen and German prisoners of war trained by U.S. sappers). The dangerous job would not be finished before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Defense In Depth | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...tithing still looks sensible to Quaker Perry Hayden, an energetic mill executive of Tecumseh, Mich. Five years ago Hayden launched a dramatic experiment to prove that tithing works. He planted 360 kernels of wheat in i a plot 4 by 8 ft. Each year he has given a tithe (one-tenth) of the crop to the church, resown the rest. This week he and several hundred fellow tithers will go into a 230-acre field to harvest approximately 5,060 bushels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dynamic Kernels | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

...years ago). Then his coach said that track would help his footballing, so Perry Samuels became a sprinter-and all last year ran a close but chronic second to speedy teammate Charley Parker (TIME, May 15, 1944). This year he pared his 100-yd. time down to 9.5 sec., one-tenth off the world's record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cowboy Sprinter | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

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