Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Promptly John Blymyer's two assistants were tried. John Curry was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. Wilbert Hess was found guilty and sentenced to spend from ten to twenty years in jail...
Five minutes passed, ten-suddenly it seemed to the befuddled generals that the room was full of soldiers, ugly grinning fellows with leveled bayonets. Tipsily "Ludendorf" Yang squinted, then whipped out his Mauser pistol-a second too late. The soldiers had already shot and bayonetted General Chang Yin-huai and before General Yang could fire he too, "The "Ludendorff" was foully murdered...
...since Oscar Hammerstein presented French opera at his own Manhattan Opera House has the Broadway company been forced into jacking its standards. Then, in 1910. the Metropolitan directors purchased peace. Hammerstein received approximately a million dollars and in return he promised to present no opera in Manhattan for ten years. The nucleus of his troupe went to Chicago, developed into the Chicago Civic Opera of today, an organization devoted to Italian and French opera. The Metropolitan, unmolested, has stayed Italian and German. The paths of the two never cross. No new group has risen to threaten them. Wagner, thus...
...means "A Coherent Theory of the Electro-Magnetic Field" and is the title of a five-page paper of highest mathematical formulae which Relativist Albert Einstein worked on for ten years and last week handed to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin for criticism. Soon it will be published...
...Health Association, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Dean Frank W. Nicolson of Wesleyan University, secretary) and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (Louis I. Dublin, statistician) collated the vital history of 40,000 graduates of eight colleges from 1870 to 1905, of 5,000 athletes of ten colleges and 6,500 honor students of six colleges from graduation until June...