Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ten years in Pittsburgh, Hungarian-born Fritz Reiner's sharp tongue and stern baton won him more admirers than friends. But he gave Pittsburgh an orchestra to be proud of. Three years ago, when the trustees let him build it up to 90 men and lengthen the season, the Pittsburgh Symphony became one of the ten best...
...gravest ethical omission of which a newspaperman can stand accused." In some states the law would have protected them from such questioning. New York has no such law. So last week Clarke and Leonard were fined $100 each for contempt of court and clapped into jail to serve ten days. (They straightway began writing a series on prison life...
Bing bong bell, It's ten and only one can tell. The master of the metropolis Fits his name quite well...
...dirt coughing blood, unable to move, and shouts of "a hundred to ten" against his chances floated through the pit. His enemy, the red, picked and kicked at him. Then, with the kind of blind tenacity that seems to excel a human's, the grey came back. Almost 40 minutes later, he won over the red. Next morning, another of Kehoe's grey muffs came back from the dead to clinch first prize ($7,000) of the Orlando tournament for Kehoe. Glowed rough, tough old John Kehoe: "Cockfighting has added ten years to my life...
Born. To Edmund ("Bunny") Wilson, 52, literary critic (the New Yorker) whose clinically detailed, bestselling Memoirs of Hecate County brought him national renown, and fourth wife Elena Thornton Wilson, 41 (voted one of the "Ten Most Glamorous Women of 1946"): their first child, a daughter; in Boston...