Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kill bird," said foxy little Annamite Louis Ko. "He no like. He like kill big." Pressagent Louis was speaking of his master, tall, strapping, Paris-educated Bao Dai, who once killed ten elephants in three days and captured a live one singlehanded...
...immigrants paying their own way. By last month 9,000 had arrived; last week the S.S. Santa Cruz brought 1,200 more; this week the U.S. Army's S.S. General S. D. Sturgis will dock with 850. Next year's goal is 100,000; within five to ten years, predicts Julio Grooscors, head of Venezuela's Institute of Immigration & Colonization, the country's population will double...
Staggered by the Artists League of America: Yankee Hitter Joe DiMaggio, who found himself on the league's list of "the ten most interesting faces in America." Long-jawed Joe's face, bubbled the artists, was "reminiscent of Modigliani's paintings." Among the other most interesting: Eleanor Roosevelt, Danny Kaye, Sinclair Lewis and Kate Smith. What made Singer Smith's face so interesting: its "simplicity, understanding and kindness...
Corinne Griffith, melting beauty ("The Orchid of the Screen") of silent movies, was ready for a new career as an authoress this week. Her literary work: a ten-year history of the Washington Redskins football team (owner: husband George Preston Marshall...
...York University has a halfback who is 33. At Mississippi, 23-year-old End Barney Poole, once an Army star, is playing his sixth year of varsity football, by grace of weird eligibility rules. At Iowa City, infants on the sidelines watch their fathers laboring through practice. Ten men on Iowa's squad are married...