Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...race between population and food supply, said Sir John, population is winning, "and we do not know how to stop it." He pointed out once more that world population has increased almost 200 million since 1939. Harvests that would have seemed bountiful ten years ago are inadequate now. Sir John said that, for his part, he was going home to his farm...
...full, but stately and unmarred by haste. He gets up at 7, dons a faded old West Point dressing gown (still bearing the "A" which MacArthur, a two-letter man, won as a baseball player and football manager), talks to his ten-year-old son Arthur. Breakfast is a substantial and leisurely meal. When it is over, at 8:30, he retires to his study, to work on papers brought home from the office...
Matsui, the Mitsubishi and other great families which had built up an octopuslike control of industry, banking and trade-would be put out of action. Nobody was surprised when ex-Baron Mitsui and the others were forced to turn in their holdings for government bonds-frozen for ten years-and to live dourly on official allotments of $40 a month...
Even after success came to Claude Debussy with his Pelleas et Melisande and Prélude a l'Après-midi d'un Faune, the bearlike composer helped support himself for nearly ten years by scribbling pieces for Paris journals. A collection of his musical criticisms called Monsieur Croche, the Dilettante Hater (Lear; $2.75), long out of print in the U.S., was republished this week. Music-lovers who admire Composer Debussy may not always agree with Critic Debussy-but some of his judgments are as luminous as his music. For his critical 'dirty work and malicious...
...most famed, Felix Weingartner: "He . . . conducted [Beethoven's] Pastoral Symphony with the care of a conscientious gardener. He tidied it so neatly as to produce the illusion of a meticulously finished landscape in which the gently undulating hills are made of plush at ten francs the yard and the foliage is crimped with curling-tongs...