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Word: tens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keep out the experts, the Graphic proceeded two months after the game was over to disqualify them by embodying a number of additional ex post facto rules in an affidavit which they said winners must sign in order to get their awards. Probably not one winner in ten could truthfully sign the affidavit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 28, 1927 | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

Last week, on what chanced to be the 150th legal anniversary of the U. S. A.,* the G. O. P. closed the bidding for its 1928 convention city. Ten cities had bid. Next fortnight the Republican National Committee will pick & choose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...ten were Kansas City, Mo., Seattle, Detroit, San Francisco, San Antonio, Chicago, Cleveland, Omaha, Denver and-at the last moment-Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...parties propose to avoid anything in the way of a commitment to the upholding and maintaining of the Constitution of the United States, except perhaps an insipid, meaningless generality to the effect that they believe in law and order. They might just as well say they believe in the Ten Commandments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: It's an Issue? | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology has just located the fossils, which have been lying in an obscure corner of the museum of the Boston Society of Natural History, since they were overlooked when the rest of the Eser collection, which contained the types, was brought to the University ten years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY MUSEUM LOCATES LOST FOSSILS | 11/23/1927 | See Source »

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