Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ages of 65 and 70, crowded into British branch post offices, last week, in piteous, hopeful, halting ranks, numbering some 450,000. Sympathetic post people registered the widows' names and proofs of age and widowhood in mossy ledgers. Then to each bona fide applicant they passed out "ten bob" (10 shillings...
This destiny drew nigh when President Arthur Griffith of the Provisional Government found himself obliged to go to London in the summer of 1922, and appointed as his deputy in Dublin his warm personal friend William Thomas Cosgrave. On Aug. 12 President Griffith died. Ten days later the Government was further smitten by the assassination of its next most prominent leader, Michael Collins. With Griffith and Collins dead, the presidential toga descended upon Mr. Cosgrave, and he was formally elected President...
...accompaniments to this ditty and that. Last week in Manhattan, for the first time in memory, it braved a formal recital. There was nothing extraordinary about the recital guitar. It had just six strings. Andres Segovia, the Spaniard who brought it to the U. S., had just the allotted ten fingers but he made big music. Long black hair, a sack coat, flowing black tie and shell bound spectacles-he was like a comic in a cinema until he sat down, cuddled his instrument under a great black arm and began to play. Then did the skeptics in the audience...
Ninety years ago, Marvin Hughitt was born on a farm in Genoa, N. Y. When he was 15, he was a telegraph operator in Albany. Ten years later he went without sleep for two nights to supervise the complicated departure of trains carrying Union soldiers to Cairo, Ill. While the railroads were pushing their bright tentacles across the Northwest, Marvin Hughitt was becoming assistant general manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, manager of the Pullman Palace Car Co., general superintendent of the Chicago & Northwestern, for whose present 10,000 miles of track he is largely responsible...
...beating such star performers as Buchner and Peltzer of Germany and Lowe of England. Coach Farrell said. All three have done at least 49 seconds in the event and with Martin of Switzerland and Engdohl of Sweden, present a lineup with great possibilities. America however, is fortified with about ten men of nearly equal merit, but probably led by Alderman of Michigan Agrucltural College. Several of the other men who have beaten 49 seconds for the 440 yard distance, he pointed out, are Barbuti of Syracuse, Swope of Darmouth, and Paulson and Ross of Yale. Borah of Southern California, better...