Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Advocate's announced intention of making itself both more timely and more readable. Both subjects, the American Legion and a department (or is one point of "The Rally" that, after all it isn't a department?) of the University, are far distant from the preoccupations of the journal ten or fifteen years ago. An editorial board that can recognize the possibility of interesting the undergraduate not only in affairs outside the college but even in those inside it has made a considerable advance in judgement and maturity...
Dean McConn ignores the fact that some bodies of undergraduates are demonstrably activated by a desire for study and plunges headlong into an explanation of its impossibility. He is convinced that the exclusive purpose of an education for nine out of ten undergraduates is to prepare them for business. This absolute neglect of the value of study for its own sake and for the appreciation of human knowledge attendant on it hardly needs comment. Its glaring fallacy will be too familiar to anyone acquainted with the already large literature inspired by the spiritless existence of the retired business...
...sixth time the Rev. Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel was elected president of the United Lutheran Church in America. He has held the office since he was first elected ten years ago. He is a New Yorker by birth and by residence, is 58 years...
When it came time to do something about the highly controversial subject of divorced persons and their status in the Church a commission was appointed to give ten years' study to divorce in general. For a decade, at least, official (and perhaps antagonizing) action was deferred thereby. This was in good taste...
John Pierpont Morgan might well have said last week: "A reckless liar named Bernard F. Champayne, posing as my grandson, obtained $15,000 from Mrs. B. P. Fields of Ginter Park near Richmond, Va., and became engaged to her daughter. Liar Champayne was sentenced last week to serve ten years in a common jail...