Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kind (TIME, Oct. 28). In truth, most of the credit for that press rate reduction between the U. S. and Japan should go to General Harbord of the Radio Corporation. General Harbord was the man who first made the startling suggestion of reducing the trans-Pacific press rate to ten cents a word. It was his constant insistence that finally got the Japanese government to the idea of even going him one cent better. Roy W. Howard, Chairman of the Board of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, in Japan as a delegate of the Kyoto Pan-Pacific Conference, gave the proposition...
...done much more than that. Planters grew used to the rumblings of Holy Mary, dug through the sterile crust of lava on her flanks to plant coffee bushes in the rich soil beneath. In recent years aviators have used the white plume from her crater as a beacon. Ten days ago Pilot D. G. Richardson, operations manager of the Mexican division of Pan American Airways, flying north on his regular trip from Guatemala to Mexico, swung close to Santa Maria, looked idly down at the boiling lava in her cauldron. Peons working in the coffee shrubberies stopped to wave...
...figurehead is President Hearst Jr. Ten hours at his desk is no long day for him. Seriously a journalist, ambitious, he dislikes Manhattan but wants to make a success of his job. No less a pundit than Herbert Bayard Swope, onetime chief of the New York World, is said to have boomed at Songwriter Irving Berlin of Hearst Jr.: "He is the most promising young man who has come into the profession of journalism during my lifetime...
...other end of the scale swim the goldfish. There are all types and varieties: cheap, ten cent fish, which do little else than swim lazily about in bowls; and expensive, showy, magnificent, beautifully plumed aquatic residents, which spend their time exhibiting class and breeding. Yet all are subject to more or less the same treatment at one time or another, whether they serve as the unsuspecting targets for the gibes of a cruel audience, or are just forgotten for a week by their feeders...
...Dunne, tackles; Clark, center; Knox, quarterback; Casey and Kennard, halfbacks; and Horween, fullback, composed the team. Taking the ball on its own 40-yard line, the University players pushed over a touchdown in three plays. A Wood-to-Harding pass netted 50 yards. Devens plunged through tackle for ten more and then Putnam took a lateral from White for the score...