Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abandonment of war,* we in Japan have emerged from the era of barbarism. . . . If only we had done this willingly ten years ago, history would have taken another course. . . . We are going to alter the definition of a 'great' state. A truly great state is not necessarily big, nor rich, nor quarrelsome with its neighbors. The great state is one which is wise, moral and Godfearing. The ideal we pursue is that of making Japan a state with which God can be pleased...
...group, the 32 poets were remarkably hardy: ten lived to be over 70; only four died before 40. Of these four, Shelley was drowned and Marlowe killed in a tavern brawl, Keats died (at 26) of tuberculosis, and Byron of an unspecified disease (from his symptoms, diagnosticians now suspect typhoid or malaria...
Pink-faced, aggressive little John Ward Studebaker, the onetime Des Moines school superintendent who is now U.S. Commissioner of Education, had been looking at the figures. Only four out of ten U.S. children finish high school, only one out of five who finish high school goes to college. But most of the 25,000 U.S. high schools were still acting as if all their kids intended to go to college. Studebaker believes that educational reverence for the "whitecollar myth" produces frustrated and maladjusted citizens. Why not frankly admit that most girls would be housekeepers and most men mechanics, farmers...
Flight Refuelling Ltd. has ten specially trained pilots, four Lancaster bombers converted into tankers, and a set of gadgets which Managing Director Sir Alan Cobham, 53, pioneer refueling fan, believes have eliminated the dangers and difficulties of refueling. Among the most important is a system of electronic beacons with which the planes can find one another, even in soupiest weather...
...work-machine" with a heavy handle. When a chimp hoisted the handle, he got a poker chip (convertible into one grape). Some of the chimps went into a frenzy of work and accumulation, heaping up capital and guarding it savagely. One earned 185 power-chip coins in a single ten-minute session...