Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exhibited last week on Salisbury Plain, England. Any member of a tank crew could operate it. Fine tuning had been eliminated by employing low frequency waves and a powerful, seven-tube superheterodyne receiver. Padded headphones protected the listener from internal and external din. The aerial, a hollow aluminum rod ten feet high, was equipped with a spring hinge to let it fold on the tank roof going under trees or bridges, rise erect again when they were passed...
...Ten other expeditions were active in Palestine, representing seven nations, but their reports were scant. Sir Flinders Petrie, aged 74, and for decades an outstanding Egyptologist, transferred his attention to southern Palestine?"Egypt over the border," he called it? where he thought he might find the origins of the Badarian culture in Egypt...
...Boston last week stood Charles E. Black, U. S. singles Champion Bowler. Once Illinois tennis champion, he took to bowling ten years ago. Now, as he watched the bowls sliding as if upon green ice with the mechanical accuracy of bearings around a greased axle, he commented on the origin, development, tendencies, of the game he loves. A straight gentleman with a red Dutch face, he looked like the shade of Peter Minuit, onetime (1623-32) governor of New Amsterdam, legendary champion of New Amsterdam bowlers, as he said: "All the big sporting events are Chicago bound. The bowling tournaments...
Gradually rules rather than decorative diversion came to govern the sport. There grew to be two main divisions-the one called "bowling" or "ten-pins," playe'd now in indoor alleys by barflies and roustabouts; the other called "Bowls" or "Bowling-on-the-Green," a handsome recreation for gentlemen, a game which in tempo compares with other present-day exercises, as the courante compares to the Charleston. It is played now by members of the Elizabethan Club at Yale University, and by the members of many an old, austere and gentle club, who are too antique for the frantic...
...express rates were arranged last week. President Cowie thought the minimum charge would be $1. (Air mail charge is ten cents for each half ounce regardless of distance...