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Word: ten (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left the camp healthy and cheerful. He returned some ten days later, insane, cut, burnt and bruised . . . He died insane, though Colonel Odura, the commandant of the camp . . . got his own Japanese doctor to try to save his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 17, 1949 | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...nimbly avoided endorsing the Townsend Plan). He got on the chicken a la king and mashed potatoes circuit: Kiwanis, Rotary, the Elks. Then, at 31, when the time looked right, Humphrey plunged into politics, aiming high. He ran for mayor of Minneapolis, came in second in a field of ten. In the runoff he lost out by only 5,000 votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Education of a Senator | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Last April a staff of ten women sent out 90,000 questionnaires to discover the current status of all graduates. Around 37,000 were returned and on this basis the old directory was revised...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: List of Graduates Appears in April | 1/12/1949 | See Source »

Freshman Coach Lloyd Harper scouted the Princeton-Penn game and reports that the Tigers have their best quintet in three years. They've lost Captain George Lawry, but eight out of last winter's ten top point-getters are back, including George Sella, Joe Homan, Bill Clarke, and Bernard Adams...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Hungry Quintet Goes Against Tigers Tonight | 1/11/1949 | See Source »

...period, but it took Cornell just five minutes of the second half to pull to a 29 to 28 lead, and then to 33 to 28, mostly on the work of Rose who dropped two set shots and tapped in another. Hold scoreless for the first half, Rose scored ten points in the second...

Author: By Albert J. Feldman, | Title: Quintet Blows Halftime Lead, Bows to Cornell | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

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