Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...claiming that he had been humiliated, Mr. Jockell sued Detective John J. Quinn (who arrested him) for $25,000. Last week a jury upheld Mr. Jockell to the extent of $1,000. Presiding Justice Joseph Morschauser of the New York Supreme Court added: "The verdict should have been ten times as much, so as to teach New York police officers to be more careful in making arrests. Whenever I go into the city I do not know whether or not I'll get out again without being arrested. As a result I take the first train out into...
...Minneapolis, Ignace Jan Paderewski rose three hours before his accustomed time to give a special concert in his private car for ten Catholic nuns whose vows forbade them attending a public concert...
More than 7,000 miles lie between Paris and Buenos Aires, a rail and boat journey of three weeks, but letters will soon pass from one to the other in ten days. Planes will carry mail from Paris to Toulouse, to Alicante, Tangier, Casablanca, and Dakar on Cape Verde off the coast of Africa. A special boat will carry the mail to the most northeasterly point of Brazil. And there planes will again take up the burden, resuming service to the Argentine, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay. Charge for one letter: circa...
...affirmative team in the order of speaking was as follows: B. S. Duniway, Rolf Lium, and Herman Johnson; while the negative was composed of R. F. Courtney '29, J. K. Fairbank '29, and V. K. Kwong '29. The first affirmative speaker opened the debate with a ten minute speech and closed it with a five minute rebuttal, while the other five speakers had 15 minutes each in which to bring forth their arguments...
...employers of college graduates have come to the same conclusion, if the report of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company is to be accepted as typical. From among the ten thousand college graduates employed by that concern, those who ranked highest in college now hold the bighest position on its rolls, while there is found no similar analogy for those who excelled in extra-curriculum work. When allowance is made for the considerable number who are included in both categories, it will be seen that these figures go even farther than President Lowell's in upholding the value of scholastic...