Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interior, is being completely reconstructed. By 1952 its roadbed will be rebuilt, its rails and ancient rolling stock will be replaced, its narrow cuts (in which 106 moose had fatal head-on collisions with locomotives last winter) will be widened, its capacity for freight and passengers increased eight to ten times...
...uneasy question the Class of '47 asked itself was: "Where will I be ten years from now?" Some of them thought the U.S. was headed for socialism. Said Harry: "All the students think the country is going into it." Many expected war with Russia...
...than one-tenth of Finland's population-from the territories the Finns gave up to Russia. How many stayed behind? The highest estimate I got was 40; a leftist told me, "Not even the Communists stayed." So Finland has ruthlessly had to requisition living space. Every person over ten years old is allowed one room (two children under ten count as one adult). Many houses and apartments have three times their pre-armistice dwellers. Farmland is being requisitioned even more ruthlessly. People with a job and a house in town, plus a farm, must give...
...make "Pop" run the sports, carry out the school rules, enforce discipline. and get special privileges. Even young dukes and princes must "fag" (do chores) for older Eton boys. To prove that this system teaches both obedience and leadership. Etonians point proudly to products like the Duke of Wellington,* ten Prime Ministers, including Gladstone, the elder Pitt...
...committee but blocked by the inertia or hostility of Senate leaders, lies the single greatest boon to house building. It is not a public housing bill. It would act only as a stimulus to private enterprise. With a yearly cost of only $143,000,000, it could produce in ten years 15,000,000 dwelling units, of which only 500,000 would be public housing. The W-E-T bill would help provide homes that rent from $30 to $50 a month, a fact which causes landlords and realtors who are enjoying inflated prices to look on the bill with...