Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expense of the population. Speculators, however, are not the only ones who will suffer. Hit by the compulsory exchange of old rubles for new, will be those who for one reason or another do not keep their savings in banks. For them the rate of exchange will be ten old to one new ruble. Bank deposits under 3000 rubles will be traded "even Steven". Greater amounts will be exchanged at a less favorable ratio...
Beck interposed: "Make no mistake about it-Dan is good for general president for at least ten years." Tobin jiggled his ruddy jowls and growled his assent...
Sizable groups of men from ten different classes were in College at the same time this fall to demonstrate graphically the breakdown of class organization which inevitably accompanied the war. It is the lack of integration born of the war together with the deeper factors of cross-cutting inherent in the House system and steady increase in class size which the Report explicitly set out to remedy. Pointing out that the "cornerstone of the Harvard alumni organization is the class," the Report offers a blueprint intended "to bring order out of chaos" on a matter of long-range import...
Campbell also pointed out that books, especially those published in the last ten years, are in constant demand and fall far below present requirements...
...cite Harvard, in 1912, as a "good example of the direct service a University can do to the country by intelligent foresight and readiness to open up new fields of study." The Alumni Bulletin was speaking somewhat before the fact. In 1925, Baker, after having spent more than ten years in an attempt to persuade the University to permit him to solicit funds for a decent theatre, slipped quietly away to Yale, in what Morison calls the greatest victory of Yale over Harvard in the twentieth century. Two years later the word was revealed that one of the Harkness millions...