Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passengers from their berths, told them to lie flat on the floor. For 3½ miles and about five minutes, they lived a common bad dream. The car teetered at 50 m.p.h. around Bennington Curve (where the Pennsylvania's Red Arrow had killed 24 in a wreck ten nights before), highballed a mile and a half more and took off into a mountainside. When it was over, brave Porter Lee Keys Jr., who had gone back to fight the handbrake on the rear platform, was dead, and ten passengers were ready for Altoona, Pa. hospitals, still crowded by victims...
...Head. Meanwhile the House Education and Labor Committee got an odd lesson in semantics. The United Auto Workers' Robert Buse, leader of the ten-month-old Allis-Chalmers strike, admitted that he, and "everybody else on the picket line," had signed a nominating petition for a Communist candidate for governor of Wisconsin. But then he coolly denied that he was a Communist himself, or that his Local 248 was Communist...
...year-old Pierre Bonnard gave Thursdays and Saturdays to the future. On those days a green-eyed, curly-haired little boy came running up the road to Bonnard's villa, just outside of Cannes, for a talk about painting. Solemn little Edouard Capra, who is now only ten, always brought along a dilapidated schoolbag full of paints and brushes, and-wrapped in newspapers under his arm,-a new painting to show the master...
...that had corroded the New York City, Buffalo and Rochester school systems for years: it nearly doubled the pay of substitute teachers, thereby all but wiped out the sweatshop system of "permanent substitutes." (There are 5,500 New York State substitutes, some of whom have been teaching regularly for ten years.) And it attacked the seniority system (which is vociferously backed by teacher groups) by putting all promotions after six years of teaching on a merit basis. Said Dewey's committee: "For too long, promotion from beginning pay to maximum pay has been automatic...
When Smith College let in a few forlorn male G.I.s last September, the boys knew that they would have to abide by women's rules. But they hoped to change them. Ten male veterans, taking graduate work, were recently told that Smith would not grant them master's degrees. The college attorney had read Founder Sophia Smith's will on the subject, and after skipping through all the passages about the "influence [of women] in reforming the evils of society," concluded that the male animal was not on the mind of Feminist Smith when she made...