Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ten years the right to export capital and invest it abroad has been denied to Frenchmen by the law of April 3, 1918. Evasions, numerous, have always been severely punished when detected. Last week this intolerable, emergency damaging of the flow of capital was ended by plump, jovial President Gaston Doumergue who signed a decree lifting the capital embargo...
...Ten million famine stricken Chinese is no small number, even when compared to China's estimated population: 319,000,000. Last week Occidental charities appealed for funds wherewith to appease 10,000,000 stomachs in western Shantung and southern Chihli, where the crops have failed. Utter despair looms from the fact that rapacious Marshal Chang Tsung-chang, odious despot of Shantung, has already seized and will continue to seize for his troops a lion's share of all food despatched to those starving...
...Luke Lea; the things he says in his papers, the politics he professes and practices; his background of notable social tradition; his vitality. He stands six feet four, is inclined to athletics, has lived on earth some 50 years. Tennessee sent him triumphantly to the U. S. Senate some ten years after he was graduated from University of the South in 1899. Col. Luke Lea is a great public personality...
Boston's baseball fan is thumbing his nose at the fan of Manhattan. For some ten years Boston, both in the American and National League, has been a clumsy underdog. When potent baseball players came to Boston they were soon sold to stronger teams. Boston has been in or near the baseball cellar long enough to be smeared with the damps and cobwebs of depression. Last week, in one of the most astounding trades in the intricate business annals of the game, Rogers Hornsby, some say the greatest second baseman of all time, went to Boston in exchange...
...searching for the cause of common colds Professor Abel and his Johns Hopkins associates are attacking a disease (it may be a collection of diseases) that makes every working man lose 1.4 days of his working year and every woman 2.1 days of hers. Four out of ten men get bad colds each year; seven out of ten women get them. The problem is serious. But with $195,000 and with other sums forthcoming if needed, it is certain to be solved. Money can provide support, equipment and leisure...