Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ralph got his know-how the hard way. His Spanish-born parents died a few years after their arrival in Mexico City (where Ralph was born in 1908), and, at the age of ten, Ralph turned up in Shreveport, La., having gone along with a Mexican family just for the ride. He did odd jobs, went to public school, drove a taxi, saw the country, became an auto body finisher in Detroit - until his employers found where all the nicks were coming from - and topped off the U.S. phase of his career one night by leading Detroit...
...time his rocket flasks had boosted the overloaded transport-with all the Kee Bird's crew-into the air, another Superfort was in trouble, 2,000 miles away. A last message placed it over Alaska's famed Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Then it vanished, with a crew...
...unavoidable technical imperfection in the campaign. Unable to solicit donations by a door-to-door method, the committee relied on individual letters to bring in non-resident funds and has rammed up against the same problem that baflies every charity with a mailing list. Where experts consider a ten percent return on letters average, the Food Relief quota for commuters has necessarily been placed at close to seventy percent. Minor difficulties such as distaste for the gummy side of stamps, lack of ink, and the ever-present aversion to mailing a letter should not, deter any student or faculty member...
...contest was close for the first ten minutes, when the Crimson overcame a 21 to 20 deficit to move into a lead it never relinquished. Hauptfuhrer scored ten points in the second period on a variety of shots to spark the Varsity spurt, and Coach Bill Barclay's squad left the floor at the end of a high-scoring first half with a 38 to 30 lead...
Action grow desultory in the second 20 minutes, and the officials contributed to the gull by calling a foul almost every time the ball changed hands. Crossin's agile left hand occasionally brought the Red and Blue to within ten points of the Varsity, but Mariaschin's set shots and Hauptfuhrer's tip-ins kept the Crimson lead comfortable at critical intervals...