Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ten million loudspeakers had scarcely ceased quivering with Nominee Smith's remarks in Kentucky on the tariff (see page 9) than two days later Nominee Hoover set them reverberating again with further tariff talk at Boston...
Appropriately President Chiang was inaugurated, last week, on the day called "Double Ten"?the anniversary of that historic "tenth day of the tenth month" (1911) when Chinese patriots exploded a bomb at Hankow which was the signal for uprising that toppled down the Dragon Throne. Last week "Double Ten" was joyously celebrated at the bomb town of Hankow with a splendid procession of water floats on the mighty River Yangtze. Lantern-light processions and patriotic fetes were held in all the major cities of China, last week ? especially at Shanghai, where citizens were doubly jubilant because Chinese census...
...hospitals good enough for the American Medical Association to bother inspecting. Of those 1,919 (or 70 out of 100) are good grade (on the "approved list"); they have fair to excellent equipment for treatment and research. The situation is not perfect. But it is pleasing to doctors. Ten years ago only 12 out of 100 U. S. hospitals were fit for praise...
...Brown alumni & undergraduates came news last week that Parson Faunce, reaching the retirement age of threescore years and ten and unrecovered from a sickness of three years ago, would be succeeded by another parson ? Doctor Clarence Augustus Barbour. Parson Barbour, staunch Baptist, prominent Rochester divine, President of Rochester Theological Seminary, will assume administrative duties in June...
London Show. $50,000,000 worth of orders were placed before the London automobile show opened last week. 45% of the cars exhibited were of British make; the rest were French, German, Italian, Belgian, Austrian, U. S. Cars of seven to ten horsepower, selling from $500 to $1,500, drew the most customers...