Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nightclub that were lucky enough to get licenses the first week (later there would be others, in Toronto and elsewhere in Ontario) had tried hard to make the atmosphere right. The Barclay Hotel called its new bar the Elbow Room, dressed it up with murals. It was jammed ten minutes after the doors opened...
...Adriatic. When Yugoslavia was taken over by the Fascists, Městrović was jailed for pro-Allied sympathies. After four months he was released through the intercession of the Vatican; in Rome, he reciprocated by modeling the Pope. He spent the rest of the war in Geneva. In ten busy months at the American Academy in Rome last year, he completed most of the works in his new exhibit...
...ten years from now, according to Leo's simple philosophy, the public would only remember who won and who lost. So that was all right. Said the triumphant bridegroom: "My God, I came west to play golf and I end up with a wife and three kids...
...Just ten months ago, a shrewd labor lawyer named Edward Lamb won a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving Michigan's Mt. Clemens Pottery Co.-and thereby opened the door to over $5 billion in portal-to-portal back-pay suits. Then the case was sent back to Detroit's federal court, where it had started, to determine how much was due the pottery workers. This time Lamb did not fare so well...
...biography of Russia's first Czar (1530-84). It was written and directed by Sergei Eisenstein, one of the few men of genius who have made moving pictures. It is a great change and, many critics will feel, a great comedown from Eisenstein's early films, Potemkin, Ten Days That Shook the World, Old & New. Nonetheless it is obviously, and in every frame, the work of a great creative intelligence...