Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Edge of New Jersey, seeking the President's support for a proposed survey of the Panama Canal and the often-discussed Nicaraguan canal route. Senator Edge assured President Coolidge that the capacity of the Panama Canal would be overtaxed within ten years...
...announced that its scientists would work-with Erlenmeyer flask and petrie dish-on the problem of maintaining a satisfactory turf on football fields. The athletic association will make a 90-square checkerboard out of the gridiron. Running in crosswise strips will be nine different grasses, old, new, domestic, foreign. Ten strips, each treated with a different amount and combination of fertilizer, will run lengthwise, cutting the grass at right angles, forming 90 differently treated little experimental football fields...
...referred was the Pennsylvania Museum of Art, at whose dedication he was making a speech. The new museum stands above the Schuylkill River, on a spot once tenanted by factories and tenements; here it had been envisaged 20 years ago by John E. Reyburn, then mayor of Philadelphia. Ten of its galleries had been completed at a total cost of about $10,000,000, and these, together with ten "period" rooms carefully removed from old houses and reassembled in the museum, were last week opened to the public...
...Ten Nights in a Barroom. Temperance tracts, wild wives tossing their heads, Andrew J. Volstead-none of these have withered U. S. alcoholism so effectively as this old-time melodrama. In this revival it is played with complete and proper gravity. The effect of this is often as funny as would be expected; yet, oft and again, some latter-day toper could be heard to gulp and sob, with regret that was not unmixed with remorse. When the little girl cries, "Father, dear father, come home with me now," it took a hardened sophisticate indeed to chuckle at her innocence...
...Count of Ten. Charles Ray is the bashful bruiser, the simple-minded boy who could lick the champion. James Gleason, here a cocky misogynist, is his manager. When the manager goes away, Actor Ray puts on a pink shirt, yellow gloves, a cane, and spats, marries. Instead of taking on the champion, he takes on expenses and a gambling brother-in-law. At last, for quick money he fights the champion with a broken hand, and is, of course, beaten up. His wife had given him the count of ten...