Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Critics and collectors disagree with her. Isabel Bishop's paintings hang in more than a dozen of the country's top museums; when a Manhattan gallery last week staged her first show of oils in ten years, it had to borrow almost half of the show from previous buyers. A painstaking worker, Bishop finishes only four or five paintings a year...
...Ten years ago last week, the biggest merger in Protestant history created the biggest Protestant body in the U.S.-the Methodist Church. To celebrate the decennial, the Methodists published some statistics to warm every Wesleyan heart...
...plants which made the oil that drove the dedication train will turn out about 400 gallons a day-at least ten times as much as has been produced in any of the 15-odd smaller pilot plants so far built by Government and industry. But it was still far short of the 10,000-gallon daily production of a full-sized commercial plant on the scale of those that powered Germany's Luftwaffe during World...
...Crazy Lester." To keep up his experiments he mortgaged everything he owned. When depression hit, he stalled off bankruptcy only by ducking meetings of his creditors. One day he went to an El Paso bank to plead for a last-ditch loan. Unwrapping a newspaper, he produced a ten-inch ear of corn, the best that any other Woodford County farmer had grown. Then he held up a handsome 14-inch ear of Pfister corn grown from hybrid seed. He got the loan...
...York's State Liquor Authority took away Levine's license for ten days. Levine cut prices again and the board again suspended him. After a third offense last March he lost his license...