Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to official statistics released Oct. 30 by the National Collegiate Athletic Bureau, Charles Conerly (playing his last year for the University of Mississippi Rebels) in the first six games of the 1947 season completed 69 passes, ten for touchdowns...
Other testimony made Meyers' spot hotter. An anonymous letter dated 1945 (which the A.A.F. had managed to "lose" in the files) charged that for ten years Meyers had made a practice of buying stock in companies as soon as he got their bids on contracts, that he held control of a Cleveland company which was buying large amounts of Air Corps supplies...
...Orleans. Sometimes he even got into politics. In 1893, a baby boy was born in the righteous, Bible-pounding hill country north of the city. He grew up and sold a patent medicine for ailing women, worked his way through a three-year law course in eight months, and ten years later ran for governor. He was the people's darling. He was going to make the rich share their wealth with the poor, and make every man a king. His name was Huey Pierce Long and the people adored and elected him. He built $200 million worth...
Chep Morrison became an enthusiastic ambassador of good will. He set up a department of international relations at City Hall, enlisted unofficial ambassadors to represent New Orleans in Latin American capitals. Before he was inaugurated, he rushed off south on a good-will tour. In the past year and ten months, he has made six trips to South America, Central America and the West Indies, averaging at least a speech a day, shaking hands, warming up everyone with his ingratiating smile, sometimes impulsively handing out advice which South Americans did not ask for. Some South Americans were a little nonplussed...
...hell, too." ¶ Twenty men wearing American Legion caps burst into the La Crescenta, Calif, home of retired Fruit Grower Hugh Hardyman, who was holding a meeting of the local Democratic Club. The invaders addressed the audience as "Progressive Citizens of America," announced that they would allow ten minutes for the meeting to break up. Then they withdrew. Arrival of the police kept them from returning. ¶ Coughing, stamping and singing God Bless America, a group of veterans forced adjournment of a Communist rally in Bridgeport, Conn. Gerhart Eisler was the scheduled speaker...