Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gravediggers-Catholics almost to a man-promptly charged that the cardinal's methods were "high-handed, arbitrary, and suggestive of the tactics used by anti-union employers ten years ago." The union also claimed that Cardinal Spellman and the trustees of St. Patrick's had "sought to break the union" by appealing to the workers as individuals in two letters and a telegram. They passed a resolution condemning "the union-busting tactics of any employer, including the Catholic Church when it acts as an employer." To dispose of the Communist implication, they cut loose from the international...
...past ten years, a slim, long-faced cockney girl with big blue eyes and a big blue voice has been the queen of England's popular singers. By last week, Vera Lynn's voice was being heard across the U.S. - and if she wasn't yet the queen of U.S. singers, she was at least high on the list of ladies in waiting...
...studied in Berlin as a child, and even made a concert debut, but he stopped taking lessons when he was ten. When the Nazis came to power, he went to Australia on a tour and stayed there, giving concerts and perfecting, among other things, his high-elbow bowing technique. In 1941, he came to the U.S., got a job as concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra-and gave the Bartok concerto its U.S. premiere. When Cleveland's Conductor Artur Rodzinski took over the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in 1943, he asked Tossy to play it again. That was the beginning...
Optical experts know that the 200-inch Palomar mirror, even though it works well now, can work even better after a delicate repolishing of its outer ten inches. The great telescope will not start on its real program of charting the outer universe until it is as perfect as scientific skill can make it. The world's astronomers, impatient for news from a billion light-years away, do not mind waiting a little longer...
Many writers need to live with their experiences for ten or 15 years before they can make first-class fiction out of them. If this is true of 24-year-old Truman Capote, it could explain why the two best stories in this collection are about remarkable ten-and twelve-year-olds. These two stories, Children on Their Birthdays and Jug of Silver, are written with full sympathy for their juveniles and an effortless command of the scene. They could become small classics of their kind...