Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present Mayor of Cambridge, Edward W. Quinn--who prefers to be known as "Eddie" is attempting to win again, for the sixth time, the high office which has been his for ten long years. Charles H. Shea--who prefers to be known as "Charlie"--is running against him, with his campaign slogan "Time for a change." Richard M. Russell, like Shea a member of the City Council, has adopted the war cry of "How about it Eddie? Isn't ten years long enough?" And Ralph Robart, Quinn's opponent two years ago, lets his picture speak for itself. Truly...
This refund represents ten per-cent on all cash purchases and eight per-cent on charge accounts of the 8600 members of the Society-last year. The total amount, which is $8,000 more than last year's dividends, will be distributed beginning at 9 o'clock this morning, upon presentation of a 1926-27 membership ticket or this year's bursar's card...
...University has been a leader in the work of photographing the stars. After the first plates were made in 1888; ten years then elapsed before other observatories took up the work seriously. The collection of about 400,000 plates which the University has amassed forms the backbone of the University Observatory. If a new star is discovered, news of its discovery is first telegraphed to Cambridge: for the records there, which have note of everything that has happened in the sky during the last 20 years, are the most complete in the world. One reason the Harvard collection of plates...
...laying of the corner-root. "This ceremony will be the most impressive that has ever been conducted since John Harvard staked out his claim by the banks of the Charles," admitted the Lampoon wit who is in complete charge of the dedication. "The elm is some ten feet high and flourishes, I am told, somewhere in the wilds of South Boston. I have not seen it yet, but is is said to be a paragon among trees...
...cigarettes drooping, pepless lips feebly echoing the words of the leaders or telling those nearby just what this or that man ought to have done. At times the Band played and the inspiring notes of "O'er the stands in flaming crimson" completely drowned out the pitiful efforts of Ten Thousand Men of Harvard who could have loosed a volume of sound which would have swept the "Yellow Jackets" off the field into the Charles...