Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ten members were present, with seven of their eight wives...
...Plus an annuity of $250,000 to begin ten years after purchase. †The revolt of the Panamen was not, as is often charged, instigated by the Roosevelt Administration. Philippe Bunau-Varilla, French engineer, engineered the revolution, which was bloodless. President Roosevelt quickly sent warships to support the new gov- ernment. Explaining this to his Cabinet, President Roosevelt said: "I simply lifted my foot...
...motif of the plot arises from the complications attending the return of a soldier, who was thought to have been dead for ten years--an old idea, but treated in a new way, for the soldier finds that his return is undesirable. His wife has remarried, and his father, formerly a poor clerk, has climbed to amazing heights upon the reputation of his deceased son, one of the great war heroes of France. What inconvenience, then, to have the son resurrected. The only good hero is a dead hero, and not only that, but the son reveals that identification tags...
...office spent watching his contemporaries promoted over him by the use of influence. The war and its injustice are intolerable to him. Then the news of his son's heroic death comes to him, and everything seems to have gone out of his life. We next see him ten years later--his grief has gone, his son is no longer a human to him, but a symbol of the glorious militancy of France. He has become full of words, insincere, prosperous, successful. The ambition which was dormant while his son was alive, has caught fire and he is climbing...
...annex this country is only the first step in the grandiloquent scheme of Polish nationalists to build a gigantic state stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Of course this could not be accomplished without another war, which even the most sanguinary believe cannot happen for at least ten years. Yet that the Poles have been allowed to retain Vilna for seven years without an investigation by the League or interference by any of the powers shows that all is not well. It has its roots in the same condition that is responsible for anti-Semitic riots in Hungary...