Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neophyte singles oarsman must spend at least ten minutes on the practice rigs before he is allowed to take the safest of three available single-blade boats at Weld--the wherry. The wherry is the widest of the three, measuring 19 inches in width. The single scull is the narrowest at 12 inches and in between is the compromise--or comp--at 14 inches...
...accomplished by Cal's fantastic new 184-inch cyclotron, which packs the most powerful wallop ever achieved by man. Firing relatively heavy atomic bullets-deuterons (heavy hydrogen nuclei) and alpha particles (helium nuclei)-with a force of 200 million to 400 million electron volts, the cyclotron has almost ten times the power of the most potent cyclotron previously known (also at Cal).* At an American Physical Society meeting at Stanford last week, Physicists Glenn T. Seaborg and Isadore Perlman made the first report on what they and their California teammates, who work under the sponsorship of the U.S. Atomic...
Erich knew that some of the bigger boys at school had their own ways of getting bread. They sold it-ten marks for a slice. Usually Erich was unable to pay, but by arguing and promising he got bread on credit. Over a period of weeks, he put himself 160 marks in debt-more than the price of a pack of American cigarets. He thought that he would be able to pay up when he had sold enough of his treasures...
...characters said: "I have the report of the Montana crash. Ted Oxen took off alone in a certain jet-propelled plane. . . . Out of the scorched and twisted wreckage the authorities picked certain remains of a human being. This human being must have been a child nine or ten years old, according to the analysis...
...controls ten oil companies and pipelines, a Cincinnati soap factory, two Texas waterworks, sizable chunks of five Rio Grande Valley banks, two small newspapers, bus systems in Austin and Waco, a San Antonio wholesale house, a silverware factory in Mexico, an inland waterway barge line, the Dixie Bus Lines, a Dallas chili plant, and 22% of Henry Holt & Co., Inc., Manhattan book publishers...