Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million...
...went to Washington as secretary to the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, became one of the brightest of the New Deal's young men. He was an assistant counsel with the famed Nye Committee, which investigated the munitions industry and was largely responsible for the Neutrality Acts. For ten years, until 1946, he had been one of the State Department's most trusted...
Political Bends. The new Israelis walked with a confident swagger along beach front at Tel Aviv. They talked confidently-indeed, stridently-of a state of ten million, not necessarily confined to the present boundaries of Israel. It was a bad joke, and also a sober observation, that the idea of Drang nach Osten lived in the new nation of Hitler's victims. As they looked around them at a disorganized and unproductive Arab world, Israelis showed some of the reactions of the prewar Germans looking around a disorganized and unproductive Europe...
...Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick came back from his flying tour of Europe feeling, in some ways, better. "I think America is four times as important as I thought before I left," said he. "It is ten times as important as the average man thinks, and 100 times as important as the average New Yorker thinks." As for Laborite England, said he, "an international crowd of social climbers have control...
Miss Geweke began plotting more than ten years ago, and has already won some powerful support. With a Ph.D. in the classics, and years of Latin teaching behind her, she had seen too many schoolkids make hard going of Caesar's Gallic War. When they finished at the end of the second year of Latin, most of them usually dropped Latin forever. Miss Geweke's plan: if most schoolkids are only going to take two years of Latin, why not give them "the best Latin"? Why not give them Vergil and his Aeneid...