Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...houses where he can find a lodging to suit his taste and his purse. He takes no interest in his room because he feels that he will presently leave it. He is an irresponsible boarder as far as the dormitory is concerned. A certain portion of the students, perhaps ten or fifteen per cent., are members of small social clubs...
Score-Woreester 36, Harvard 35-Goals from field-Holland. 1, Ricknell 3, Pattison 2, Baskervill 2, Brodie, Edstrom 9, Edwards 6, James 2, Barrett, Fouls-Holland 2, Baskervill 3, Moushegian, Regeree-McGulness. Time-four ten-minute quarters...
...conversation turned to the talking pictures, whereupon Miss Cowl said: "It is a purely economic truth that the talking movies will replace the legitimate drama inside of ten years. A theatrical manager is forced to spend between fifty and eighty thousand dollars on a production, can show it in only one city at a time, and then must wait several months before his returns come in. But a motion picture producer is able to make a film and a sound record and to distribute the show for presentation in 70 cities at the same time...
...adding machine be used to figure the capital controlled by and associated with Manhattan's newest investment trust, the machine, if adding only to 999,999,999 would fail in its task. For when, last week, Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. merged with Financial and Industrial Securities Corp., ten digits were required to express the resources affected by the merger. True, each of the companies will put into the combine a mere $122,000,000, giving the new company a capital of only about a quarter-billion. But Financial and Industrial Securities Corp., directed by Ralph Jonas, is connected with...
Following a most rapidly moving opening reel in which the scene shifts from an Indian reservation to a co-ed college and thence to a tribal village in Arizona in less than ten minutes, the picture then slows to an annoying pace. Even the Indian war dance and struggles atop high precipices fail to arouse the average movie goer. A climax in which the hero races a Ford containing two cheating palefaces is replete with all the nonsensical devices which made the western serial thrill of 10 years ago pass into bad repute...