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Word: tens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yost. President Little, doubtless, "took several ideas to Michigan," but the only idea concerning athletics at Michigan which can rightfully be claimed by Little is the woefully impractical and weak idea of the University having two football teams. Some real enthusiasm might have been engendered had the Big Ten Universities all put Freshmen football teams into contest with each other (since Freshmen cannot play upon the regular teams), but to expect a Michigan "B" team to create much interest when playing some other university's "B" team is, as was proven last Fall, impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 18, 1929 | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Einstein are cousins. March 14 he will be 50 years old. She is almost that age. Ten years ago they married, after previous marriages and divorces. She is a levelheaded, practical woman who finds her philosophizing husband no nuisance. Said she of him some time ago: "Professor Einstein is not eccentric. He wears stiff collars when the occasion demands it without protest. He hardly ever mislays things. At least, not more than most men. He knows when it's time for lunch and dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Einstein's Field Theory | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Once there were only a few men fools enough to suffer. Then came this Athletics-for-All Policy. Where one man hobbled over the Bridge with his limbs red with Mercurochrome, now there are ten. Where one man went mad learning signals, there are dozens...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: THE CRIME | 2/16/1929 | See Source »

Proof of the growing interest in ping-pong at Harvard is furnished by the popularity of the tournament, now being conducted by Harry Cowles Squash and Tennis Shop, in which many prominent squash and ten-is players are entered. Heading the list of seeded men is M. T. Hill '31. Other seeded players are H. M. Culley, Gurdon Worcester, A. G. Thacher Jr. '29, R. S. Kazanjian 2G., G. H. Perkins 3S.A., W. J. Iselin '29, and A. Ingraham '30. B. H. Whitbeck '29, captain of the University tennis team, and T. E. Jansen '26, runner-up in the State...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Perspiring Ping Pong Potentates Perform Perseveringly Pushing Pills 'Pon Planked Platform in Preceptor's Pit | 2/15/1929 | See Source »

...contest will consist of a two-hour examination, the nature of the examination being essentially the same as in previous years. There will be a list of identifications to be answered and also a list of approximately ten questions, to be answered in "editorial style." This latter arrangement is a departure from last year, taking the place of the "essay topics" which were required then. The news to be covered is that from June 1, 1928 up to today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIMES CURRENT EVENTS CONTEST TO BE HELD TODAY | 2/15/1929 | See Source »

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