Word: ten
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...reported, and now stands at a whopping 142,656,000. California made the biggest gain-2,485,000, as of July 1, 1946-to become the third most populous state. In the 1940 census, it ranked fifth; now only New York and Pennsylvania are ahead of it. Of the ten leading states, only Missouri dropped in population; it lost 8,414 residents...
Along with Use Koch, 30 Munich co-defendants were sentenced for the murders of some of Buchenwald's 53,000 slain political prisoners. Twenty-two will hang; others got terms ranging from ten years to life...
...among Bolivia's propertied rulers, the one-in-ten who have a vote, there was crisis. The uneasy coalition of "national unity" that President Enrique Hertzog set up as an aftermath to last year's lamppost revolution had nearly collapsed...
...Murderers' Row (Ruth, Gehrig, Meusel and Lazzeri), whose club banged out 158 home runs in 1927.**Last week, two other National League teams caught the fence-busting fever and broke out in a rash of home runs. In one game, the Stv Louis Cards and Pittsburgh Pirates hit ten between them, tying the major-league record...
Last week, "Babe" Zaharias turned professional for keeps.† She announced that she had accepted a Hollywood contract to make ten movie shorts on golf for $300,000. The once boyish Babe, now 34 and given to silly hats and nail polish, made it clear that the decision was not entirely her own: "George and I talked it over for a long while and he finally said O.K." George is her 300-lb. husband, known in his wrestling days as the Weeping Greek from Cripple Creek, one of the few men who can sometimes better her average (240 yards...