Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Helen Hayes, whose playwright husband, Charles MacArthur, slipped in the shower last year and cracked a rib, slipped in the same shower, grabbed at a porcelain grip, broke it, sliced her right forearm ten stitches worth...
...Dogs & Accents. At Forest Hills, everyone was primping and preening for the two big shows. Gate receipts for the three Davis Cup days were already $145,000 plus. The ten days of National Singles play would probably bring in nearly $150,000 more. The concessionaires were getting ready to serve up a record-breaking 30,000 hot dogs and 48,000 bottles of soda pop. Each morning, the 23 grass courts were being rolled a little nearer perfection...
With better luck, it might have been his ' third or fourth title. Big Jake thinks that he is playing no better now than he did in 1942, the year he swept through ten straight tournaments and was stricken with appendicitis on the eve of Forest Hills. The next year it was ptomaine poisoning. In the 1944 and 1945 seasons, he was off on Coast Guard duty. He talks about it as though it happened to somebody else and was all a big joke...
...vice president, and was in line for its presidency when, in 1941, he left to run the wartime oil industry for Interior Secretary Harold Ickes. His war job done, Davies found himself relegated to a minor vice presidency at Standard. He resigned rather than let Ickes-who had bought ten shares of Standard of California stock for that purpose-fight for his reinstatement...
...fact of slavery in the Soviet Union is not news; its literature is extensive.*Author Dallin (CoAuthor Nicolaevsky contributed only one chapter to this book) lists a bibliography of ten packed pages on the subject, including Vladimir Tchernavin's unforgettable I Speak for the Silent Prisoners of the Soviet (Hale, Cushman & Flint, Boston, 1935). But until now, most of the slave-camp exposes consisted of narratives of personal experience and scattered corroboration drawn from between-the-lines interpretations of official documents. What Author Dallin has done is to bring all of this material together in a thoroughly documented volume...