Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME regrets its disrespect to Jerry, whose passing was noted in the Boston Globe. Ten years ago Joe Horan, chief buyer of Armour & Co., saw and admired youthful Jerry, appointed him assistant executioner in the stockyards. During ten years Jerry led the macabre processions of sheep and lambs to the slaughter house. Seven million innocents followed him. None of them returned. All became lamb and mutton chops. Deceptive Jerry was pampered, lived in idle ease. He died of old age after a succes d'estime...
...average district. This inequality arises from the inevitable shifts in population?one State increasing rapidly; another either decreasing or increasing slowly. Wise, the Founding Fathers foresaw this, and provided in the Constitution of 1789 that seats in the House should be redivided among the States, each ten years, according to census. But that is precisely what dishonest Congressmen have prevented since...
From an Electoral College standpoint, the new distribution, with its ten added votes in California and Michigan, gives normally Republican states an electoral gain while Democrats show a slight loss, reductions in much of the Solid South balancing other increases. The reapportionment also will increase urban versus rural representation, thus possibly aiding the Wet cause...
...father and mother came to court and testified that they had had him pow-wowed 15 times before he was ten years old. Said Babulla Blymyer, his mother: "Yes, John was hexed. But who done it? You can't tell that. There's so many witches around...
...Yesterday's editorial stated that the cost of a Prom is $3,000. Since 250 couples and 150 stages attended the dance last year if the price of tickets for couples and 150 stages attended the dance 1st year if the price of tickets for couples alone had been ten dollars instead of eight, there would have been no deficit. To attend a "Special Night" at a night club costs fifteen dollars or more which shows that the charge for the Junior Prom would not be excessive even at ten dollars per couple...