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Word: ten (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your fairly accurate account of Mrs. Riddle and Avon Old Farms [TIME, March 22] repeats a myth, unjust to the memory of a headmaster of the school who suffered for ten years under her devastating domination, and ended broken in health and mind. His name was not selected from the telephone directory; he was suggested for the position by the dean of a theological seminary in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...odds on that horse shall exceed ten-fold, then shalt thou carry thy fortune to the man who is called Straight...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Chinese Dopester Tells All | 4/17/1948 | See Source »

...shall multiply ten, fifty, even an hundred fold...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Chinese Dopester Tells All | 4/17/1948 | See Source »

...Ten Crimson tennis players took off at the crack of dawn today bound for Brunswick, Maine, and a match with Bowdoin. The team is hoping rainclouds will keep away and give them a chance to defeat the Bowdoin unit, which escaped last year when a storm halted played with Harvard ahead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Men-Head North to Bowdoin | 4/17/1948 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the Peace Committee announced further plans for the rally. Three oversized telegrams calling upon Congress to block UMT, the draft, and all "measures which add to the war tension" will be circulated, with signers contributing ten cents or more to support the proposed permanent Peace Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peace Rally Near Mem Hall at Noon | 4/16/1948 | See Source »

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