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Word: tens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last paragraph this story refers to one division of the game called " 'bowling' or 'ten-pins,' played now in indoor alleys by barflies and roustabouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...caught the last coach of a ten-car train going fast enough to make a mile jump in two hours, Tully performed a feat that has never been equaled. Please ask Mr. Tully why he didn't stop to light a cigaret or write a letter home after being kicked off that train, before catching the last coach. If Jim Tully ever saw a circus train he would know that the last coach of every circus train that ever moved a mile out of the yards was the railroad caboose, not the last coach of the circus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...this ten-car circus load its tents, stakes, poles and other paraphernalia loosely in baggage cars, when, if he has ever seen a circus in action, he would know that such material is loaded on wagons, which are run on flat cars. . . . According to Tully the wagons were transported empty, and the canvas and other paraphernalia loaded into baggage cars just to give the roughnecks something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...mistake. Morris ("Al") Epstein Jr. has not ceased to write letters to TIME. One or more of his letters have reached TIME every week for ten weeks. But TIME has ceased to publish the letters of Morris ("Al") Epstein Jr. Conversely-in all fairness to Mr. Epstein-TIME must cease to publish the letters of his many critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

Said General Pershing: "I don't think we ought to delay," and got on with the preliminary speeches. Leaving Cherbourg through a driving rain for their Paris Decennial, the legionaries were saluted by poilus stationed every ten feet for nearly two miles along the railway tracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: In Paris | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

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