Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next November, Phi Beta Kappa will add an additional 16 from the senior class to its roster. In the week before each commencement, the top ten percent of the graduating class are admitted to Phi Beta Kappa...
Harvard got its charter five days before another charter was voted to Yale. The Yale Phi Beta Kappa, however, was an active organization ten months before the Harvard branch organized. Which of the two chapters is the older is still a meet question...
...polo jargon, one notch short of perfect. For handicap purposes, rated players are graded each year by the polo association of each country on the basis of all-round performance, from zero goals to ten...
Cardenas, "but I'm supposed to tell him.") Another short silence. Then Cardenas counted the last ten seconds: "Ten-nine-eight-seven-six-five ["He always misses one of them," says Chuck] three-two-one-drop...
...Last week the Keeley Institute of Dwight Ill., in a survey of 13,471 alcoholic patients given "the cure" over the past 18 years, found that by occupation, farmers topped its list of drinkers. Others in the top ten, in order: salesmen, merchants, mechanics, clerks, lawyers, foremen and managers, railroaders, physicians, manufacturers...