Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ten of the new courts behind Dillon Field House will be clay, and 15 are asphalt. In addition, by the middle of October, 14 of the old Business School courts will be resurfaced with asphalt...
...Wednesday. But you can't borrow lecture notes the first day . . . Maybe I should get lost ???? Would he know his way around, though? Maybe I could meet an upperclassman that way. Or I could pretend he looks like Rufus McCoy who rescued me from drowning when I was ten...
...Llosa, is more staging areas. The climate of southern Peru is favorable; the sea is full of fish. But there are virtually no islands there, and when the birds try to nest on the mainland, foxes eat their eggs. So Señor Llosa is building ten-foot walls across the peninsulas, making artificial islands for the birds to use as bases. He even dreams of parking the birds some day far at sea on anchored, floating islands...
Faced with a class of 40 or 50 bloodthirsty, ten-year-old savages, what is the poor poetry teacher to do? Strong's secrets: pick poems on subjects that will interest the pupils; stress sound and rhythm ("Vachel Lindsay will help you a great deal"); don't be afraid of noise ("let them say it with all the ferocity they can manage"); keep explanation and annotation to a minimum ("I have heard more than once a heartfelt cry, 'Oh, sir, please don't explain it!' "); never do violence to a child's feelings...
...ten titles (seven of which have appeared on movie marquees): Lost Horizon, The Phantom Filly, Home Sweet Homicide, To Have and to Hold, Junior Miss, Random Harvest, Lad: a Dog, Wuthering Heights, Steele of the Royal Mounted, The Border Trumpet...