Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...among us truly amazed that one John G. Winant could no longer endure this age [TIME, Nov. 10]? The marvel is that many more of us have not taken the same way out. We have lived through ten years of hell-the most diabolical "witches' sabbath" ever put on since the beginning of recorded time. Thirty million people, men, women & children, have been starved, tortured, shot, blown to bits, frozen, gassed*-murdered by every conceivable method of fiendish cruelty -mostly at the hands of "civilized, enlightened, cultured, progressive, democratic Christian nations." And the end is not yet. We have...
...real estate, the figures "belie the impression held by many that Harvard owns all of Cambridge and most of Boston. Not only have the University's real estate and mortgage holdings decreased in the last ten years to less than two percent of the total at present, but this percentage is considerably lower than comparative figures for most of the major universities in the nation. The average amount invested in real estate by fifty-nine colleges and universities in 1946, including Harvard, was better than thirteen percent...
...Schuman faces exactly the same problems that defeated the Ramadier regime: a grossly inflated economy that has scaled prices fifty percent above normal with only a twenty-five percent wage increase and a suicidal factionalism among France's myriad political parties. To replace the vacuum that characterized Ramadier's ten months in power, Schuman proposes stringent budget supervision, a wholesale stabilization of national currency, and an all-out war against Communist-inspired strikes. His purely economic solutions can be effected through prudent government alone, but when M. Schuman intends to crush the present widespread strikes, he must deal with unions...
...Crews of ten men will be organized with a man who owns a telephone nominally at the head of each. When the call comes through for shovelers, the Employment Office will phone its squad captains, who will rout out their men, all of whom will be in neighboring entries...
Goateed Sir Hubert Wilkins, 47, intrepid Arctic explorer, faced a new challenge: in Seattle a stalled elevator trapped him (and the operator) between floors for ten minutes. Sir Hubert finally fought his way back to civilization by clambering up through the emergency exit...