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Word: tens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...55th street which replaced the original one on 48th street) will overlook the garden of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie on 91st street. It will house 300 day pupils and 60 pupils from far away. Classes will continue to be limited to eight members. Each pupil will still study ten or more subjects every year, in the famed Spence tradition of "varied curriculum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Surprise | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...Barbuti (Syracuse) in the 220 and 440, and Eric Krenz (Stanford) in the discus and shot put. Illinois, regular winner in the middle west, did what was expected at Evanston, Ill., and by winning eleven points out of sixteen kept the track and field championship of the Big Ten. George Simpson (Ohio State) won two events, the 100 and the 220-yard dash. Lately Cambridge has been beating Oxford at most sports. There are generally some American Rhodes scholars on the Oxford teams. Last week Cambridge stuck to routine in 13 tennis matches. There were three U. S. players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Routines | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...bronze group well rewarded their efforts. Ten feet high, on a granite base, it shows a young pioneer couple. The man has a gun, the woman a baby. Side by side, they stand looking in the direction of the possible peril. The park around the statue is neat and luxuriant. No other U. S. village the size of Elmwood has yet shown the wisdom or the ability to adorn itself so well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pioneers | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...Mortality has been cut down from the old average of 26% during the first year to 1%. The immunity so far has lasted four years and there were no deaths reported during that time. The vaccination itself is reported harm less, but it must be administered within the first ten days of life. Last week the French Academy of Medicine buzzed with attack and innuendo. Professor Lignieres of Buenos Aires had come out flat-footedly against B. C. G., claiming that tuberculous infection could result from inoculation with the vaccine. Three sessions were devoted to the controversy. During the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tuberculosis & Babies | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

Call Money Rate, for the first time since July, 1921, rose to 6½%. Banks one day withdrew ten million dollars from the money market; Memorial vacation day's impingement was another cause; and twenty million dollars to England in the week a third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stock Exchange Resume | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

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