Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seat, and gazed upward, eager to rise. Mrs. Coolidge, good housewife, was enthusiastic over the improvements; insisted on touring the house before permitting the President to go to bed. The next morning he slept over; was tardier at his desk than he has almost ever been, arriving shortly after ten...
...Montreal, Boston, New York and Newport News rumbled and banged and blared last week with the embarkation of the American Legion & Wife, about 19,000 strong. Some 8,000 legionaries were already in or near Europe, converging on Paris to commemorate the arrival of the A. E. F. ten years...
...Manhattan, mechanics last week set about installing, in a Broadway booth, ten of the latest models of a four-year-old invention of one F. E. Gray of Philadelphia. Four years ago Mr. Gray devised a new place to drop nickels- the Sodamat. From the original Soda-mat all a patron got for his nickel was an ice-cream soda or other-soft drink, mixed with mechanical generosity, despatch and cleanliness; automatically spouted into the glass after the plunk of the coin. On the second Sodamat model, there were electric lights. The next carbonated its own soda-water. The models...
...brother of a legend made a record for himself last week for selling his New York Stock Exchange seat for $226,000, newest high seat price; buyer was one Malcolm E. Falk, broker, who exuberantly counted on his buy becoming worth half a million dollars in five or ten years; seller was Walter L. Ross, brother of famed, because lost, Charley Ross...
When Henry Ford marketed his ten millionth flivver, a musician composed a symphonic poem to celebrate the event (TIME, April 25). Edward Phillips Oppenheim has now published his 100th novel,* and though not one of his creations has been a flivver, somebody should salute Mr. Oppenheim with at least a small trumpet...