Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacWilliams checked the weather and the military situation. A chalked caution on the briefing board read: "Suchow general situation calm. Fighting going on southeast ten kilometers away. Never circle over or come down to look at fighting area." MacWilliams stopped to talk with other pilots warming their hands over a coal stove. Like MacWilliams, a former U.S. Navy search pilot, they had come to China after the war because they liked flying and could make good money. In a busy month they could net as much as the equivalent...
...chairman announced that Article 11 was passed without opposition. The chamber came alive resounding with handclapping and shouts of "Mahatma Gandhi Ki Jai! (Victory to Mahatma Gandhi)." In 1931, Gandhi had said: "I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived." Now, ten months after his death, Gandhi had won a victory he would have cherished as much as India's freedom...
Margaret Truman and her father were guests of honor at the National Press Club's first father-daughter banquet. Billed as the "traveling Trumans," the talented pair played a piano duet of the Jenny Lind Polka, a tune they had first rehearsed when Margaret was ten...
Father Divine added Philadelphia's 54-year-old, ten-story Lorraine Hotel to his flock's big, heavenly real-estate holdings. Making a visitation with his blonde wife and some of his "angels," he announced a new regime in Lorraine management: no drinking, profanity, or smoking, segregation of the sexes by floors. To a $25,000 cash deposit, the purchasing angels added cardboard boxes containing small bills. After two hours, four bank employees had counted...
Last week, for the third time in ten years, a Carnegie Hall audience saw, heard, and applauded Violinist Goldberg. When he walked quickly onstage to take a stiff stance before the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, the audience saw a small, smooth-haired and handsome man in his late 30s. Holding his fiddle high, he gave his listeners a powerful performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto, with clear round tones and steel-fingered doublestops, that brought the audience to its feet when it was over...