Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Landsting (Senate) were elected last week for an eight-year term. The other two-thirds were elected four years ago for an eight-year term. Last week's voting resulted in slight gains for the Socialist-Pacifists (who demand abolition of the Danish army), and cut down from ten to four the majority in the Landsting now held by Liberal Prime Minister Thomas Madsen-Mygdal. The Folketing (Lower House) was elected two years ago for a four-year term...
...first step came in 1903, when an Englishman named Fred Lowenadler guided the merger of six factories into the Jonkopings och Vulcans Tandstickfabriks-aktiebolag. Ten years went by before the remaining import companies were led by Ivar Kreuger into the Aktiebolaget Forenade Svenska Tandstickfabriker. These two combines functioned independently until 1917, when they agreed on a cost-saving and letter-saving merger. They became, briefly, the Svenska Tandsticksaktiebolaget. Translated literally, they became the Swedish Match...
...bottomless tankard. And always he was freed from the dungeons (often by the services of the influential priest whom he called "my more than father"). Back in Paris, at the age of 31, he faced the gibbet of Montfaucon for a second time, was again liberated, sentenced to ten years' exile. With a farewell to his impoverished mother, whom he continually tried to comfort, he vanished from the city and from history...
Last week the Institute announced that the alloy had proved itself ten times more radioactive than pure radium, that it is unusually efficacious against cancer...
Recent developments in the Beck Hall situation make the proposition of the erection of a ten story apartment house a matter of interest to Harvard men in general. A new aspect has been put on the project according to a statement of the purpose of the building issued yesterday by G. P. Davis '14, trustee of the Beck Hall Property...