Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Roosevelt, haberdashing youngest of the four, was doing fine: ten years after his debut as a lowly stock boy, he became head of a new chain of California department stores, the Roosevelt-Good Corp...
...International Family." The party was part of a fortnight-long World Assembly of Frank Buchman's ten-year-old Moral Re-Armament movement, and it clicked smoothly along in the well-oiled M.R.A. manner. Statesmen and ex-statesmen from 25 nations (including Italy, Germany and Japan) were there. The cablegram that invited them had been signed by some 51 Congressmen from 40 states (including Senators Barkley, Brewster and Bridges). On the local invitation committee were California's Governor Warren, Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron, the University of California's President Robert Sproul, Hollywood's Jimmy...
...subject. Other reasons: testers' voices vary; other sounds in usual testing rooms make a big difference but are ignored in figuring a man's hearing; because of the way the human ear works, the tester's voice does not sound significantly louder until he is within ten feet...
...Pilot Radio last week unwrapped the first television set to sell for less than $100. But as the price tag grew smaller ($99.50), the set shrank in proportion: the new model has a squinty screen no bigger (2 in. by 3 in.) than a ten of spades...
Divorced. Vincent Price, 37, Broadway leading man (Victoria Regina, Angel Street) turned silky cinemenace (Laura, The Long Night); by Edith Barrett Williams Price, fortyish, retired stage actress; after ten years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif...