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Word: ten (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later, the report said, a Soviet Embassy official went to Nelson's home, gave him "ten bills of unknown denominations." The committee recommended that Nelson be prosecuted for espionage and cited for contempt of Congress. It said that the testimony of "Scientist X," who swore that he had never known Nelson, would be turned over to the Attorney General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Atomic Spy Hunt | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...team changed or was it the same same same he jumped up and turned off the turntable. As soon as "Crimson in Triumph" had stopped spinning, he picked it up, centered it on a nail over the mantel, and pushed his favorite horseshoe up against it. Then he took "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" and carried it carefully into his bedroom, placing if underneath his pillow. The Columbia game couldn't be helped but there was many a night until Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/2/1948 | See Source »

...official schedule is not yet completed, but each team will play at least once, and occasionally twice a week throughout the five-week season. When only one contest is held each week, ten-minute quarters will be allowed. If two games fall in the same week, quarters in each contest will be eight minutes long...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Round Robin Plan Voted | 9/30/1948 | See Source »

...About ten years ago someone on the RKO lot got a kittenish leopard as a gift. Leopards must have been big box office at the time because no one could wait until they had made a funny-type picture with this jovial cat and Katherine Hepburn. The result has recently been exhumed under the eyebrow-raising title of "Bringing Up Baby"--"Baby" being this sweet tempered kitty. It seemed a lot funnier at the age of twelve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bringing Up Baby | 9/29/1948 | See Source »

...ten boys yesterday, twenty today; I'll have thirty tomorrow and a hundred on Monday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamar Examines Early Arrivals for '52 Football Team | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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