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Word: tens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newsmen further learned that the Coolidge fishing costume was as follows: last year's Western (high-heeled) boots, khaki trousers, khaki shirt, slicker, last year's Western ("ten-gallon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Rain | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

Hearst now has 24 newspapers, ten magazines, eight feature, news and film services, also the Cosmopolitan Book Corp. Indeed, there is no danger of the wolf growling at Hearst's door. Good Housekeeping alone is capable of buttering Hearst's bread and of satisfying his large passion for antiques. He may be old (65), but he is not yet ready to get out of journalism. Rather, he is trimming his properties, consolidating them, fertilizing the hardy ones, weeding out the weak ones; so that a banker can look at them and say: "They are a sound unit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Anywhere, Everywhere | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...that they had by now discovered and tried every possible way of testing their strength against each other. It has been left to two Universities in the United States to show them a new way. Yale and Harvard, as we announced on Saturday, have had an English literature match, ten a side, and Harvard won. The idea is much too good not to be borrowed from a country to which England ready owes so much. Both in fitness and in scope it grows as we look at it. The University which is beaten in the Boat Race has been able...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 6/21/1928 | See Source »

...Corp., and is a merging, through F. J. Lisman & Co. (investment bankers), of important vending machine manufacturers: Automatic Merchandising Corp. of America (United Cigar Stores has a large share in this one); Sanitary Postage Service Corp. (its machines sell one and two cent stamps in 30,000 drug stores, ten postoffices); General Vending Corp. (36,000 ubiquitous automatic weighing machines) ; Hoff Vending Corp. (Wrigley gums, Life Savers candies); Seher Mack Corp. of America; Remington Service Machines, Inc. Remington Arms Co. is to manufacture these mechanical merchants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Mergers: Jun. 18, 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...losers hit F. B. Cutts '28 frequently, in all for ten bingles, but were not quite able to make up the margin between their total and the Crimson score. Cutts kept the game from going into an extra inning in the ninth by a smart play. Phillips had opened the frame with a single and came home when R. C. Sullivan '28 bungled Ellis' grounder. As H. W. Burns '28 started his throw to the plate in a futile effort to catch Phillips, Ellis started for second. Cutts cut off the throw-in and picked Ellis off at the second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TUFTS DOWNED BY CRIMSON BATTERS IN 5 TO 4 CONTEST | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

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