Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stone was one that fell 60 years ago in Central Poland, after travelling, it is estimated, for indefinitely more than ten thousand million years at a hyperbolic speed across interstellar space. This rate was about 35 miles a second; it and the hundred thousand others that came with it in that remarkable shower overtook the earth, which was moving about 20 miles a second. In his speech, Professor Shapley said that "something of the nature of the material universe in those times before the earth and other planets were born can be determined by the study of such ancient meteoric...
...five "in Hall" he is wasting money for he is charged for the uneaten meal, even as in the Harvard Houses. Five meals a week, instead of 14! Of course, they must all be dinners: but that is a small hardship because the Cambridge undergraduates have no large city ten minutes away, and they must be in their colleges at a comparatively early hour each night...
...Albie Booth, being saved for Harvard, sat on the bench where everyone could see him. On the field Donald McLennan, second substitute for Booth, after a scoreless first half, cut through tackle and around end to jam through one touchdown and lead the way for another. Eddie Wittmer and ten other hard-working Princetonians found they were up against a better team. Yale 13, Princeton...
...Harmeson passed to a squat little fellow named Bill Woerner who, falling across Iowa's line, gave Purdue its first Big Ten championship in 33 years. Purdue 7, Iowa...
Members of Indiana's Anti-Shave Club, wearing beards till their team had won a game, saw a little back named George Ross score 14 points in the last ten minutes. Then the Club swarmed onto the field waving shaving mugs, brushes. Indiana 19, Northwestern...