Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amritsar and Lahore and passed into the Indian Dominion; not far behind, foot columns No. 10, 11 and 12 lumbered steadfastly eastward. Carefully feeling its way around Amritsar, a foot convoy of perhaps 100,000 Moslems made towards Lahore and Jinnah's Promised Land, at a rate of ten miles...
Fordham is through with football's big time, said its president, the Rev. Robert I. Gannon. It will still play intercollegiate games, but "does not want ever again a football team rated among the nation's ten heaviest. It doesn't do us any good financially, scholastically, socially or athletically," Father Gannon said. "We are not interested in providing business for the gambling fraternity and we are not interested in the sports writers . . . the tyrants of tyrants. We are interested in staging contests for our students, the alumni, friends and those on the subway circuit who cross...
...forget I'm not trying to get laughs. I'm not nervous. And anyway I'm pretty good in the ducking department." On the air, he sings a more modest tune: "It wouldn't surprise me if this program wound up owing Hooper ten points...
...Alley was becoming a deadend street. More new songs were being published, played and plugged than ever before-but four of last week's top ten songs on Billboard's hit parade were at least 16 years...
...much as any other man to develop "spectacle" movies. He doubtless did more than any other man, with his extravagant bathing scenes, to turn the U.S. bathroom into a national pride. He was the first Hollywoodian to risk a movie on an all-out religious theme (The Ten Commandments, 1923). He was among the first to use "effect lighting." He pioneered with the camera boom and the "blimp" (silencing insulation which permits the sound camera to move freely). He was among the first to use color in a feature (hand-tinting, in Joan the Woman...