Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates is almost completed. In the 14 states which give the voter any chance to express his opinions, the primaries are over. In the rest, Republican delegates have been picked by state conventions or state committees in all but Indiana; Democratic delegates are still to be chosen in only ten states, Hawaii and the Canal Zone. The delegates represent a fair cross-section of the U.S. electorate-a little weighted on the side of age, prosperity and political experience...
...deft gesture at passing the buck, the mayor and the city council set up a Committee of Fifteen (five councilmen, ten citizens) to look into the matter. Last March, the committee recommended a $5,000,000 increase, insisted that the money could be raised by more strenuous efforts to collect taxes and a more efficient municipal operation generally...
...lobstering concessions from the government. All the dories on the beach are owned by the companies, which supply gear and gasoline for boats with outboard motors. Each dawn the lobstermen go out to set and pull their pots, returning at dusk to sell their lobsters to the companies for ten pesos (30?) apiece. For the fishermen and their families, life in the Juan Fernández is monotonous and lonely, and the sea is full of danger. Even so, they say, they prefer it to the unknown risks of life "on the continent...
...onlooking Harvard undergraduate, soured by a winter of Radcliffe Jolly-ups, could only remark, "I've never seen so many people at Harvard having a good time." Today the windup, the last round, until ten or 15 or 20 years...
Yale is second in the ten-team EIBL, which includes all traditional Ivy League opponents plus Army and Navy. The Elis are also second in team batting with a .252 average, while the Crimson ranks fifth...