Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...colossal hoax" on the people of the U.S., and would "impose Washington and Wall Street intervention in the internal affairs of the participating countries." He had a counter proposal: the U.S. should give $50 billion to the United Nations to be spent for relief over the next ten years...
...Hradcany Castle, Benes' residence. Running a gauntlet of police who belabored them with rifle butts, they managed to get across Jirasek Bridge (though their ranks were thinned). Police with Tommy guns emerged from the shadows of the massive castle walls. An officer ordered the students to step back ten paces; the students fell back. "Twenty paces!" cried the officer. This time the students did not budge. They started singing the Czech national anthem...
...calculated killing. This enabled him, in turn, to tackle the problem of educating his son. Since he could find no school in tune with his own ideas, he founded the Malting House School at Cambridge, a fabulous institution (annual cost per student: $4,000) where children aged four to ten were taught laboratory physics and chemistry before they could read or write. Pyke went back to the stockmarket for additional funds, but this time the professionals ganged up on him. At the age of 34 he was haled into bankruptcy court (assets: $272; liabilities: $290,000). The Malting House School...
...promised 1,071 transport and military planes. Most of these planes had already been delivered. But a quarter of them had arrived in no condition to fly. Another third had become useless for lack of parts for repairs. In August 1946, the whole delivery program had been suspended for ten months when the U.S. Government tried to coerce Nanking into accepting a coalition with Chinese Communists. Now that the remainder of the planes and the necessary spare parts were going to be put on the line, Chinese were grateful. But the hour was late...
...Ormandy, whom I play with most, I make fun. With Bruno Walter, no; with him it is just the angelic smile." Francescatti likes to take concerts easy-but he keeps his playing clean, forthright and brilliant. A small, excitable Frenchman of 42, Francescatti has been fiddling in the U.S. ten years, and is now regarded as one of the half-dozen first-raters in this country. In his native Marseilles he learned most of his art from his mother and father, both able violinists, and could play classical concertos before he learned to read music at eight. Says...