Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handle. In Olcott, N.Y., a Mr. Ten Brook, who was christened in 1876 (the year of the Philadelphia Centennial) for one Judge Hodge (owner of the opera house, manufacturer of gargling oil and supporter of Samuel J. Tilden for President), gave his name as John Hodge Opera House Centennial Gargling Oil Samuel J. Tilden Ten Brook...
...tiny, corrugated iron shack with no blankets and little food, the pair laboriously painted copies of 100-yen and 10-yen notes by hand. Kanji, a onetime mechanical draftsman, sold them apologetically at a 10% discount, explaining that the ink had been blurred in a faulty printing press. In ten months, the total take was less than...
General Dwight Eisenhower, after only 2½ weeks in civvies, made the Custom. Tailors Guild's annual list of the Ten Best-Dressed Men. What got him the votes: his "erect bearing and easy stance" combined with his "discriminating sense of color and style...
...junior high schools last week, Oregon boys & girls of 12 and 13 were learning the facts of life from a film. After nearly ten years of cautious preparation, the state of Oregon had taken a bold step. It was sponsoring a film that candidly brought before mixed adolescent audiences the truth about menstruation, reproduction, glands and growth...
Dunster and Adams chipped in 216 signatures Thursday and yesterday to a pro-UMT petition as student sponsors of the drive made plans to hit the rest of the Houses and the Yard early next week. The ten-man group was organized spontaneously last Wednesday in Dunster, and is not affiliated with any other organization...