Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest musical event in Vienna since the war: after a ten-year exile, Vienna's favorite living musician had come home...
...tropics: malaria. Every year, malaria strikes 300,000,000 people, and kills 3,000,000 of them. But with the now common household spray DDT, "it is a safe statement that at least 90% of the malaria of the world can be wiped out in the next ten years, and that's conservative," said Dr. Fred Soper of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau...
...more than one American in ten has seen it. In all the U.S. there are only 27 television stations (radio has over 1,600). And there are only 325,000 tele-sets-nearly half of them clustered in the New York area (there are 66 million radios in the U.S.). But the infant is growing like Gargantua. Last week's television news...
...Future. Television, predicts NBC's Executive Vice President Frank Mullen, "will be a six-billion-dollar industry, four times as large as radio today." Allen B. Du Mont (who runs the Du Mont network) thinks it will be "one of the first ten U.S. industries in five years...
...London music hall is no accident. She calls herself a Cockney, though she was actually born in the London suburb of Lewisham, beyond the sound of Bow Bells. Her parents, she remembers, were "a bit arty-went in for pacifism, vegetarianism, Socialism and all that." At ten, she met Raymond Duncan, who sent her to study dancing with his sister Isadora. At 16, Elsa organized a London theater company, which put on one-act plays by Chekhov and Pirandello...