Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thin hedge screening the river from a lake which it entered. Across the lake was a log cabin with a wet U. S. flag hanging over it. On the lake was a guide boat with a chair in it. In the chair sat a figure in a slicker and ten-gallon hat. He was watching trout come to the surface to snatch morsels of liver, their semiweekly rations. The surface of the lake was grey, desolate, broken. It was still raining...
Board, presided over by Admiral Charles F. Hughes, Chief of Staff, passed by ten of the first 15 captains on the eligible list. The chance of a captain to become a rear-admiral was thus 3 to 1, against. Last year it was 2.7 to 1, against. Captain Thomas Tingey Craven...
Observers of the Young Turks' successful occidentalization of Turkey marveled, once more, at the docility of the Turkish masses, which have abandoned the fez, ceased to contract polygamous marriages, and now seem prepared to alter the fundamental rites of their religion-all this within ten years...
...have been ten years in war and know its horrors. I want to lift this scourge from our people...
Only once in ten years an unknown player finishes in front. Few had heard of Sarazen when he won; no one had heard of Hagen when he came to fame in 1914. Practically unknown were the two golfers who on the first day at Olympia Fields led all the rest. Henry Guici was one, a tiny player, dark-haired, quick-tempered. Frank Ball tied Guici with a 70. No one knew anything about him except that he was a cousin of John Ball, famed Britisher. Either Guici or Ball might win, of course, but the bookmakers didn't think...