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Word: tens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Waters Taft, sister-in-law of the Chief Justice of the U. S., announced herself a Smith lady, collected campaign money in Manhattan. Some people remarked that on Feb. 7, 1912, Mrs. Taft became a Roman Catholic. Some people remarked that lately Mr. Chief Justice Taft's ten-year-old prognostications about what Prohibition would lead to, were republished (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Politicules | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Most of the new States begotten by the War were born in Autumn. Wilhelm II abdicated as Kaiser and King in November 1918. The sixth birthday of the Fascist Régime in Italy has just been celebrated (TIME,, Nov. 5). Czechoslovakia was ten years old last week, and the Turkish Republic was five. Today there are eleven red candles on the cake of Soviet Russia. Therefore last week birthdays loomed as potent news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Potent Birthdays | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...Ten-Year-Old. Every alert U. S. citizen remembers that President Woodrow Thomas Wilson was the Godfather of Czechoslovakia. Without his decisive intervention the new state might have been snuffed out as soon as born. But of course every Czech and Slovak knows that the Father of Czechoslovakia is Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, first and still President of the Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Potent Birthdays | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...Wesley's supreme legacy was his conception of practical religion for the ordinary man and woman. I believe that you cannot understand America unless you understand Wesley. In America ten per cent of the people are Methodists. To Wesley Christianity was primarily a way of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Baldwin's Ape | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...become one of the States. ... At present if a referendum were taken on this subject it would carry by a 75% vote of the whole electorate, not because Newfoundland has forgotten the old flag, but because the tendency of the times is to consider dollars and cents first. . . . Ten per cent of our population are continually going to and coming from the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWFOUNDLAND: Prosperity! | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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