Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the U.S. war crimes tribunal at Nürnberg issued an indictment accusing Field Marshals Wilhelm List and Maximilian von Weichs and ten generals with responsibility for killing 13,000 persons in the Balkans and in Norway...
...University AVC's ten-man, Milwaukee-bound delegation systematized their duties for the national convention next month by assigning specific jobs to one another in an open meeting yesterday afternoon at the Chapter's PBH office...
Hackett will build the new school on a wooded Riverdale plateau overlooking New York's Hudson River. He plans to have 600 teen-age students: 200 from New York City, 200 from the rest of the U.S., 200 from Europe, Latin America, Asia. In ten polyglot residences he will mix them well, hopes to transform them into citizens of the world. Says he: "This won't be an international school. 'International' has bad connotations these days. We want to transcend nations...
...record had been suspiciously highbrow and severely private: he had written and taught for nearly three decades, spent eight years as Princeton's president, served part of one term as governor of New Jersey. Twelve months before he went to Trenton, probably not one U.S. voter in ten knew much more about him than that he had kicked up some kind of a row on the Princeton campus. William Randolph Hearst scorned him as "the Professor . . . perched on his little hillock of expediency ... a perfect jackrabbit of politics . . . ears erect and nostrils distended . . . ready to run and double...
...book that spends months travelling from India or Austria collects a lot of dust, and since Schoenhof's bookstore is full of foreign volumes, the air is thick and musty. In the labyrinthine passageways Mr. Paul Mueller and his ten assistants scurry around the great piles; people pop out at you from nowhere, and if you're looking for a book in anything but English you'll get what you want, even if letters have to go out to China. The firm's buying and selling with the whole world seems to have imparted a secret-service atmosphere...