Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Dickenson explained the "real meaning" of the Hoover "landslide" as follows: "Take ten voters. The first man votes for Hoover, the second man for Smith and so on to the ninth man, who votes for Hoover. The manner in which the tenth man now votes decides the landslide...
...Elysee Palace a small golden clock tinkled ten. Jovial, florid Gaston Doumergue was settling contentedly to the digestion of his late presidential dinner. From the clock a low, rapid tik-tik-tik. From the President of France a contented, sleepy sigh. Felicity! Then a door yawned and in strode busy, kinetic M. Raymond Poincaré, the man who saved and stabilized the franc, the grizzled "Lion of Lorraine...
...Poincaré to form a new ministry in succession to the Poincaré Cabinet of Sacred Union, torpedoed last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 12).* At first the "Lion of Lorraine" had sulked and growled resentment at the torpedoing-the growls and sulks abating slowly. His sudden appearance now at ten p.m. meant unquestionably that he had succeeded in arranging a new and workable group of parties and ministries. Soon President Gaston Doumergue formally approved the following cabinet...
Fall rowing this year occupied a shorter time than usual. Starting the first week in October, some ten or 11 crews practiced on the Charles five days a week until the final three mile race on October 31. The same policy of mingling University squad men and class crew, inaugurated by Coach E. J. Brown '96 in the fall of 1926, prevailed; the only differentiation made being that of weight. The heavy men, boated into five eights worked out under Coach Brown himself; while the 150-pound squad was in charge of F. R. Sullivan...
...which the regular forces scored came as a result of six touchdowns and one extra point. The dropkicking was woefully weak and can stand much polishing before the Yale game. Harper plunged over the center of other line for the first tally, and also made the second on a ten yard romp off tackle...