Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...count the cost of the awful visitation of the elements, they found 719 persons had been killed, 2,313 injured; 850 houses had been destroyed, 3,000 flooded, many of them floating away with their inhabitants astride the roofs; 37 vessels had been dashed from their moorings and ten miles of dikes had been washed away...
Whist and for about ten years reigned unchallenged. It became known as Bridge. Then one afternoon three Englishmen (according to reliable tradition) could not find a fourth to complete their table. They evolved a game based on exposing one of the four hands and bidding for it. The man who estimated he could make the most tricks with his hand playing in combination with the exposed hand took the bid. There were, of course, heavy penalties, for overestimation. From this crude start grew Auction Bridge, which is still the most widely played of all. In its present form all four...
...baby's back. In the shake of a dead lamb's tail the baby was on its way to the nursery; in a longer jiffy the mother was trundled towards her hospital bed; and interne and nurses washed their hands, turned around for the next case. Ten minutes later Mrs. Sam Smith's own doctor came, looked at hospital records, genially congratulated Sam Smith on the birth...
...worms with a shovel, cutting him in two. Then, about to slaughter another, he scanned the walls of the house he was building. The walls were alive with tiny reptiles. Sliding out of their tunnels, they came writhing into the grave and slithered about his feet. Ten, 20, 30, he counted, standing in amaze. It was as if the whole world's tiny agents of decay had suddenly centred on the dusty pit he was making for a dead man. As big as chisels, as little as rusty pins, the hungry red worms swarmed into the grave. At last...
...Ten Per Cent is just about that successful. It tells about a Jewish butter-and-egg man who plays "angel" to a play so his daughter may be starred. One of the producers is Thomas Jackson, who functions as the detective in Broadway. The Triumphant Bachelor...