Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those days, this was satire. Today, however, a song called "For Sentimental Reasons" is just fading out after about ten weeks of huge popularity, and both in its lyrics and its music it has "Love Is Like a Rose" all beat, right down the scale from conventionality to absurdity...
Although intensive training has only been underway for the past ten days, Bolles has had his boys working out informally all winter in the Newell indoor tank where artificial currents simulate natural rowing conditions. Practice on the Charles will still emphasize form and style until the second week in April when Bolles will start using the stop-watch...
...Ten years ago, at 51, Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer discovered that all work and no play were making him, a dull boy. He tried golf, and decided he was not the type. Then he bought a race horse, and found a plaything that appealed to his instinct for high drama and fascinating figures. He confided to friends: "I'm going to run this stable the way I run my studio -build it on personalities." But once the heady smell of the stables got him, things got out of hand...
With most of the returns in, the 1946-47 season had produced only one major unbeaten team, Duquesne (won 19), which scorned razzle-dazzle basketball. Others in the top ten: sharpshooting Navy (16-1), which finished with an easy win over Army; flashy but overadvertised Kentucky (31-2); Oregon State (25-4), the best on the West Coast; Holy Cross (22-3); and Texas...
...Nests. After the last of many temperamental disagreements with Sullivan, Gilbert retired to the country, where he became a somewhat eccentric justice of the peace. "Had you been a gentleman," he said to a chauffeur whom he had just fined ?5 for reckless driving, "I should have fined you ten." Gilbert himself bought an American Locomobile-in which he promptly ran over a bicycling curate and sent his own wife flying into a hedge. "She looked like a large and quite unaccountable bird's nest," he mused...