Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Please raise your petition number to at least ten times that number. I can't help but feel that Nancy Smolling has not yet caught the true spirit of TIME. It has always appealed to the more spiritual side of my being and I forget the more superficial things like Style when I think of TIME and besides I think it would be a selfish column because the men subscribers certainly would not enjoy it and I feel so very keenly that TIME is for all who are interested in people and events and not just in themselves...
Warren T. McCray, ten years ago, was accustomed to spend many a morning inspecting his large stock farm of stubby-necked Herefordshire cattle. He would stand, smiling a little and very proud, pointing out to some visitor his prize heifer or a likely bull. Many friends came to see the stock farm, but more came to see the rich and influential owner. Finally these many friends, in 1920, nominated Warren T. McCray for Governor of Indiana. And caused him to be elected...
...Ten Years. Commander Richard E. Byrd flew from Buffalo to Toronto, with Maurice Bokanowski, French Minister of Commerce. In Toronto M. Bokanowski said: "In less than ten years I foresee every man flying as the most logical method of transportation...
Ninety years later, in May 1922, another train pulled out of the Baldwin Works at Eddystone, Pa. It was labeled the "Prosperity Special" and consisted of 20 monster locomotives, each with ten driving wheels as high as a man's head. Smaller locomotives pulled and pushed it across the continent to Los Angeles. This train constituted only a part of one order filled that year by the Baldwin works, a new herd of 50 freight movers for the Southern Pacific R.R. Hitching the monsters together and delivering them all in large groups was a publicity stroke conceived by Samuel...
...Significance of this book may be considerable. It is the third novel by an author of whom it has been fairly said that he "can write rings round half a dozen of our ten best novelists." His first book, God Head, had tremendous physical force. His second, Listen Moon!, was young-animal, lyrical, pensive. Now he has opened a squamous dungeon of the mind and explored it with the erudite perversity of a cheerier, juicier Poe. Like all horror stories it is belittled by its own theatricality yet it remains an amazingly worded orgy of the more unspeakable human propensities...