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Word: tens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neighborhood, sending a flock of well-dressed children to the public school, doing their full duty to society as citizens, supporting the whole by a pay-check truly earned and regularly banked, may think of the couple as an exception. If he will multiply this couple by ten thousand, or more, he will have a more exact conception of the public status of the deaf and dumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 19, 1927 | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...using any of the money to increase the range of their guns. Up stood Fred Albert Britten, two-fisted Illinois Republican, member of the Naval Affairs Committee. He set forth that 13 of the 18 U. S. battleships cannot shoot as far as can 20 of Britain's ships, ten of Japan's; that to elevate the Oklahoma and Nevada guns to give them the same range as British and Japanese guns, would not contravene the spirit of the Washington Naval Disarmament Treaty (1923). Other

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week Dec. 19, 1927 | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

After his release, which had cut six years from his ten-year term, the old man went back to his young wife. Soon they separated; Captain van Schaick, a thin, rickety man, his face always lighted with a tardy and now unnecessary diligence, went about from place to place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Death of van Schaick | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...play ball on this proposition. We offered to take care of him for 18 months. But he became stubborn, showing his inability to realize what is best for the church." The pastor then told why he clung to the little white church where he had preached for the past ten years. "I am unwilling to accept dismissal at the hands of the vestry," he said. "I believe that the majority of the people are with me, and I have been given a unanimous vote of confidence by the clergy of Long Island. I could have gone away with several thousand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Will Not Go | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

Tonight's concert will be the last given by the club before it starts on its Christmas trip, which will include ten cities, going as far west as St. Louis, Mo., and as far south as Atlanta...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSICAL CLUBS TO PLAY TONIGHT | 12/16/1927 | See Source »

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