Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fastened to shale and the other to a conglomerate formation." Water had gradually seeped into this bed, softened it; and last week when the dam was filled to its maximum capacity, the foundations crumbled. Residents reported that they had noticed small leaks about the base of the dam ten days before the break...
...this day nine Norwegians out of ten still emotionally prefer Bjornson to Ibsen, while recognizing with gratitude that the fame of Ibsen has "put Norway on the map," for ignorant millions would otherwise scarcely differentiate it from Denmark or Sweden. Perhaps the most familiar tradition of Ibsen is that of an old man who would sit for hours at a bay window of the Grand Cafe in Oslo (then Christiania) staring with unseeing eyes at the bodies of his countrymen but piercing their souls with uncanny insight. His reward is that the theatre-goers of today, who constitute...
...defend London, Britain last week tested, successfully, a tiny single-seated war plane capable of shooting up like a rocket, five miles up in ten minutes. The "Intercepter" plane, as it was known, is very light and requires a small pilot with the delicate touch of an expert horseman...
...controls and one of its features is that it handles so easily you could land on a dime. As a matter of fact, one time coming down unexpectedly into a bora, as the strong winds of northern Italy are called, we landed within sixty feet. The Yankee Doodle carries ten gallons of gasoline and that gives it a range of about 475 miles...
...That Mr. Loree would within seven or ten days accept a post as chairman of the board of directors for the Van Swer-ingen's system...