Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among leading English physicians the opinion was frequently heard last week that had His Majesty been stricken even five years ago by so virulent an infection he would have died within ten days. The authoritative British Medical Journal told in simple, vivid language of the new means used to strengthen and increase the number of white corpuscles in the blood royal: "The infection belongs to a type with which clinicians have become much better acquainted in the last ten years. . . . There is no set duration and no crisis. . . . There are phases or chapters on infection . . . and . . . the temperature settles slowly...
Special Correspondent Wythe Williams of the New York Times picturesquely described the ensuing confusion: "Election day dawned with no strong candidates of any party. Election day waned with no candidates developing any signs of sufficient strength to win. In fact, ten minutes before the final ballot any latecomer in the halls of Parliament where the election was held might, by a few well-chosen words, have obtained the victory...
Celebrating its 50th anniversary last week, with an edition extraordinary, the Post-Dispatch pointed with pride to 50 years of championing. Among other achievements, the Post-Dispatch was one of the few papers in the country which was not deceived by the premature report of the Armistice ten years ago, and while the city went wild stood steadfastly by its guns...
That this discovery is likely to become a matter of considerable importance to astronomers and also to geologists and geophysicists as made evident by the fact that the variation is nearly ten times that which thus far can be accounted for on theoretical grounds...
Christmas is quite another thing. All the brains that have been racked and paper wasted in vain attempts to analyse the spirit of Christmas show how little any of us know about it after the first ten magical years of our life are over. It needs a supreme disregard of physical limitations and an indifference to the more material things of the world that only a few divinely gifted men retain after they have lost their ignorance of them. Dickens knew the secret when he wrote that spiritual epic "The Christmas Carol". Not many Bob Cratchits can quite forget...