Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...likeness. No effort or money is spared to reproduce the last freckle, pock, line, whisker; the exact crook of nose, areas of baldness, hair part, ear convulsions, etc., for the Presidential medals constitute the official record of what each President looked like while in office. Until about ten years ago, the medals were called "Indian peace medals," hundreds of them being distributed to chieftains at the beginning of every administration. Presidential medals can be obtained by anyone from the Treasury Department...
...harbor of Manhattan, two bargees stirred sleepily last week. It was only about eleven o'clock in the morning and the bargees, who had gone to bed at ten the night before, were drowsing until it became time to eat their supper. One of them mumbled a curse and sat up angry and bewildered. Soon his companion did likewise; the two stared at each other with alarm and annoyance, for the air was full of strange noises. Whistles, sirens, funnels, horns, bells, squealers, filled the morning with a troublesome cacophony. Suddenly one bargee shook his fist...
...Deputy Jacques Duclos, Communist leader, the law awarded six sentences totaling 30 years and six fines totaling 18,000 francs ($540); to Deputy Andre Marty, famed Red, the law gave ten years in jail and a fine of 6,000 francs ($180); René Bellenger and Henri Barbe received lesser terms. All the sentences were for fomenting disorder...
...giggle merrily at his pedagogical jests, smile understandingly at his well-known eccentricities, make their pretty eyes look deep and sympathetic when he comes to the point of his discourse. Thus do the wily coeds, whose actual intelligence measures but 25 on a scale of 100, compensate for a ten-point deficiency in intellect, and extract grades equal to those attained by charmless male students whose measure of intelligence on the same scale is 35. Authority for this condition is Dr. George Thomas, president of the University of Utah, who lately cautioned his faculty members to guard against such insidious...
...first the large cost of transportation was considered a serious obstacle to the appearance in the Stadium of the famous ten-foot drum and its attendants. A contribution from the H. A. A., and from Purdue Alumni, and a collection taken up in the college was supplemented by an offer from. Roxy, New York theatrical producer, for a one-night engagement at his theatre, insuring the needed funds...