Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bruegel dropped the "h" in his name during the last ten years of his life...
Peck, at 31, has moved up into a secure place on the list of the nation's top ten box-office draws. He can count on 5,000 fan letters a week. He has been respectfully mentioned four times as a candidate for the Academy Award; his performance in Gentleman's Agreement makes him a red-hot contender for the 1947 Oscar...
Thirty-six hundred boys bunked in a wartime bomber plant and commuted to conference sessions in a fleet of 60 buses. The basement of Cleveland's massive Public Auditorium housed 1,600 girls (a minor crisis developed when they found only one mirror to every ten young ladies). Twenty-five Methodist bishops turned out for the occasion, as well as a couple of hundred foreign delegates...
...than they had ever been before. Yet they were less than satisfied. One midwesterner (with possible exaggeration) wrathfully wrote his Congressman: "For one fat hog we can get a carpenter for two days. For one 14-month-old steer, at 25? a pound, we can get ten pieces of 1 x 2 inch board, 10 feet long, second quality." Though farmers complained of a squeeze by labor and industry, their prices had risen more than either of the others...
Cornell racked up a ten-point lead at the ten-minute mark, broadened it to 26-14 at the half, and won going away. Bill Prior, George Hauptfuhrer, and Steve Davis all were ousted with five fouls in the last eight minutes of the game, which aided the Crimson cause not one iota...