Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goal posts will no longer stand on goal lines, but in the same relative positions ten yards back. This shift will prevent injury to players smashing into posts on touchdown plays and will eliminate confusion caused by the old position of posts, often in the way of goal line plays and punts from back of the line. Drop-kickers will have to boot ten yards harder to score three points...
President Edward Henry Harriman Simmons of the New York Stock Exchange appeared on the rostrum for the second time in ten days to declare a member expelled. This time it was G. B. Todd, sole floor representative of the firm of Gordon B. Todd & Co., who had violated two rules: 1) pledging more securities of certain customers than was fair in view of the customer's indebtedness to the firm; 2) failing to answer that part of the questionnaire regularly submitted by the Exchange to its members in which explanation is demanded of how the firm guards against just...
...hemispherical kiln usually 30 feet in diameter by 12 feet in height. A yard full of kilns looks quite like a group of dirty red igloos. Their orifices are plugged up and a fire lit under a stout grating upon which the raw bricks are piled. In six to ten days they are burned hard and useful. Their red color is the result of iron in the clay and sand. White bricks come of lime added to a specially prepared clay. Various minerals added to the base clay give "tapestry" bricks...
COUNTERPOINT-Josephine Daskam Bacon-John Day ($2.50). Ten years ago the publication of Author Bacon's latest novel held vast interest for novel readers. Here was a lady whose characters were always engaging; no nastiness could be found in Author Bacon's bestsellers, just nice people doing nice things. Now, with the publication of Counterpoint after ten years, a few readers, remembering the old books, will be struck with the way a similar article produces a different reaction. Over this story of Will Stickney, of Naomi Lestrange (whom he marries, with whom he parts after vicissitudes, to whom...
Wilcox went on to say "We were not so much interested in the Harvard game. We came over east to test our attack and give it a few finishing touches by playing a strong team, but the attack itself is intended for the Big Ten Conference. Our league is in the West...