Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dream is Nigerian independence. He would like to see it come in a 15-Year Plan: ten years of equal British-Nigerian government, then five years of Nigerian government with Britain standing by. Next to that he wants the country developed industrially. He doubts that the present-day Briton will do it. "The type of Britons who come . . . now," he says, "are not as intelligent as those who came before. Either we have progressed or they have degenerated...
...power unequaled by any painter that ever lived." His Nightmare (in which a luminous horse's head thrusts between a sleeping lady's bed curtains) was reproduced everywhere, became almost as well-known as Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. Even to William Blake, who had ten times his genius and only one-tenth his contemporary reputation, Fuseli...
...Jackson, Miss., ten-year-old Edgar Nation Jr. tore a page out of his notebook and scrawled a letter telling why Miss Aline Neal was his favorite teacher. Eddie said he liked Miss Neal because she "never sent any of us to the principal's office." In fact, he liked her so much ("and she's so pretty") that last spring, when Eddie was promoted to the fifth grade at Duling Public School, he asked the principal to promote Miss Neal...
...will be raised to 1,970,000 tons, some 350,000 more than in the same period last year. To speed up sugar distribution, the department announced that 1) sugar stamp 12, which originally was to become valid July 1, could be used immediately, and 2) another stamp for ten pounds-bringing the year's total ration so far up to 35 pounds per user-will be validated Aug. 1. "If recent improvements continue," it added, "a moderate increase above the 35-lb. figure is in prospect...
Oriana Atkinson denies being an expert on Russia, and sensible readers of Over at Uncle Joe's will not wish to dispute her. Neither can they disagree when she writes, "But after ten months in Moscow I do claim this: I know more about Russia than anybody who has never been there...