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Word: tens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arriving in Baltimore, Governor Smith joined a motorcade which slowly wended its way along Cathedral street, which was lined on both sides with ten-deep crowds, with a preponderance of women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of the Atlantic | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...greatest social-service agency, and it holds its power because it understands sympathetically the needs and trials of the masses. Its leaders visit those who are sick and in distress. . . . Tammany asks no questions and fills out no pink and green cards. Its office hours are not from ten to four, but continuous. . . . Its virtue is its humanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tammany | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

George William Norris has been a Senator from Nebraska for 15 years. Before that he served ten years in the House. So cynical an observer as Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun calls him "the most honest Senator." He sits on the Republican side; he is chairman of the Judiciary Committee, but only because the Republicans have sought him, have courted his influence. Actually he is and has always been totally independent, quieter than his late friend Senator LaFollette, firmer than his ponderous friend Senator Borah. Something unbending, something chilled by logic, leads him to conclusions whither not even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Octopus! | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Harvard sent the largest number of men into the race, but had agreed beforehand to compete only for the medals given to those men holding the first ten places. Under this agreement the plaque for the most entries goes to the University of New Hampshire, which sent 11 men to the starting line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPRINGFIELD RUNNERS WIN FIRST OPEN MEET | 11/3/1928 | See Source »

...college bell is that it be punctiliously oscillated every morning at seven o'clock for a period not less than much too long. A fine of thirty dollars would not be out of place for this offense; fifty is more in keeping with the estimates of the ten o'clock scholars resident in the Holden tradition. In accordance with this scheme, class rushes of a splendidly barbaric simplicity have been converted into tuge-of-war with their reminiscent aroma of Greek culture. At Harvard the case is somewhat more difficult, but the senior class after a year of intimate study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BELL OF THE CAMPUS | 11/3/1928 | See Source »

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