Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next ten years, AEC expects to spend some $500,000.000-an amount roughly equal to the entire assessed value of the state. The Arco station will become the chief testing ground for the industrial development of atomic energy, including such projects as ship and aircraft propulsion by atomic power...
...went by before the Czech government made a terse announcement: Hill and Jones were being held for espionage. Last week the Czechs broke their silence again with an even more chilling report. The pair had been secretly tried as spies, had been sentenced to long terms at hard labor-ten years for Jones, twelve years for Hill...
...Hearst's tabloid Daily Mirror offered $200 in prizes for the best letters of advice to Mrs. H. In three days, 3,000 letters from every state and Canada flooded into the Oklahoman's city rooms; the telephones rang constantly with long-distance callers. Four out of ten letter-writers advised Mrs. H. to seek comfort in God; one letter suggested consolation in whisky. Hundreds urged Mrs. H. to invest her money in ventures ranging from a dog-mange remedy to a sure-fire system for playing the horses...
...eggs, he switched to other materials, finally hit on a phenolic resin as the best. This week, Westinghouse claimed that Sterling's "meringue," made by heating the resin with a catalyst to 350° F., was the world's lightest solid. At any rate, it was ten to 20 times lighter than the fluffiest pie topping...
...only way he knew how. It's like hauling off a'-d punching the wall when you're frustrated. I'm gratified with the way he's getting along up to now. If he lives by society's conventions and laws for ten years I'll know we have accomplished something." Surgeon Meany is more optimistic about a lasting happy ending: "John was an apt case for psychological surgery. His troubles started between the ages of twelve and 15, when he passed the point of childhood anonymity, before which kids...