Word: ten
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Tickets and invitations will be sent out this week by the Committee to the members of 1919 and their partners who are to attend the dance. Groups of from six to ten couples may make application through an elected chairman for boxes at the dance. These will be assigned by lot and will be furnished by their respective occupants. Details as to this furnishing will be given out by the Committee at a later date...
...about without knowing much of the time where the earth is at all. Two fellows who are pretty good will usually get started by approaching each other in opposite directions and as they pass try to get on each other's tail. They may go round and round for ten turns like a cat chasing its tail till the one who can make the sharpest turn succeeds in getting behind the other. Then the first one to get out of the way, may do a renversement or half turn of a vrille and the second will...
...Woods, who produced, "The Rape of Belgium," once was active in the ten-twenty-thirty arena. Now Mr. Woods presents his plays on a $1.10, $2.20 and $3.30 scale, including war tax, but the stuff is the same--in the production at the Shubert, at least. From the first to the last curtain a lot of stage ordnance is exploded while brutal German officers are stalled and finally thwarted in their purpose to defile an American girl and a countess in the inevitable Belgian chateau...
...money. We must not confuse loans and taxes, which are the means, with ships and shells and guns and airplanes, which are the ends for which money is raised and appropriated. The people have been generous in the financial support of the Government; since the declaration of war over ten billion dollars has been lent, or paid in the form of taxes, to the Government. Congress has appropriated unstintingly for every object calculated to assist in the prosecution of the war; nearly twenty billion dollars has been alloted to the various executive departments for their use during the current fiscal...
...general conception of education, or formal training, which prevails in Europe as well as in America. This conception and its application have, I believe, a defect which I think is at least partly responsible for the odd fact that, so far as I can discover, about eight men in ten, on completing their formal education, find the choice of a life work an extremely perplexing problem. This defect, however, is one which neither Harvard nor yet all colleges combined could do anything appreciable to remedy: because the remedy must be first applied at the very beginning of the child...