Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28's estimation of 5200 February registrants fell only ten short as 5210 undergraduates field through Memorial Hall yesterday to register for the spring term...
...Dedicated Girl. Sonja, ten times world's champion, was not very popular around Ottawa, after a visit in 1932 (as an amateur) when she demanded, but did not get, $2,000 expense money for herself, papa, mama, trainer, maid, dog and parrot. She was never Barbara Ann's ideal, but she represented her objective. At eleven, Barbara Ann took one big step toward that objective-by becoming junior champion of Canada. Two years later, in September 1941, Clyde Scott collapsed while watching a bridge game, and died. It almost broke his daughter's heart...
...nipped SR's development in the blueprint. But this week in the Saturday Review of Literature, Dr. Rolf Kaltenborn, son of Radiorator H. V. Kaltenborn and SR's most active convert, reported that Subscription Radio was about to have a "Pioneer Network . . . of ten regular broadcasting stations." Kaltenborn claimed to have "sufficient funds" to get his network started...
...speculator's rules of thumb had gone by the board. Once brokers thought stocks were worth buying if they sold at no more than ten times their annual earnings. But last week, even the 30 "blue chips" used to measure the Dow-Jones industrial average were selling at only 8½ times their earnings, the lowest ratio in over 20 years...
This week, Cap Krug gave his estimate of the cost: $9 billion. Krug estimated that the job would take five to ten years. Oilmen thought Krug was trying to bite off too much. The technology of making synthetic oil was improving so rapidly that such big plants might well be obsolete before they were in production. Know-how had already reached the point where gasoline from natural gas could compete with gasoline from crude...