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Word: tens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walsh a son of a former major league hurler, was on the mound for the South Bend outfit, and held the Harvard batters well in hand throughout the nine innings. He allowed only seven' hits and struck out ten men. Walsh also was a leader in his team's attack, scoring four runs and collecting a home run and two singles in four times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY NINE TROUNCED, 20-1 | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...Conn., June 10--In the face of a driving rainstorm Saturday afternoon, Coach Brown's heavy Crimson crew started out from the New London Bridge with ten racing strokes on the first official time trial of the season over the four mile course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WIND, RAIN AND TIDE SLOW UP CREW IN THAMES TRIAL | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...Coolidge decided she would need a staff of 14 house servants. Stationed near will be ten detectives and 60 infantrymen from Fort Snelling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Brule | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

Margaret Anglin, 52, as a lady of wit and leisure, indulged herself and the audience with such wisecracks as "Her teeth are like the Ten Commandments-all of them broken." For once, an all star company seemed as good as the sum of its parts and the play creaked seldom as it rolled rapidly across the stage. Among the stars were: Frances Starr, 42, Cecilia Loftus, 51, Jacob Ben-Ami, 38, Rollo Peters, 45, Helen Gahagan, 27, Georgette Cohan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 11, 1928 | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...Manhattan last fortnight, George Hicks, 60, clumsy, careless, fell off a subway platform. Before he could scramble up the edge again, a train, like a big boa came slithering toward him. George Hicks flattened himself face downward. The boa slithered over him, stopped. Ten openings opened. Hundreds of humans wriggled into the openings, became corpuscles of the boa. It hissed a little, rolled on over the body of George Hicks, and into a dark hole. George Hicks rose, unhurt, and made for the platform. Again a boa with two small red eyes came toward him, too fast. Again George Hicks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 11, 1928 | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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