Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stamp it out utterly by His Excellency Jules Garde, Governor-General of French West Africa. To women who thus beautify themselves in future, a jail term of from two to five years. To "parents or beauty doctors" who perform or abet such beautification, jail sentences of from five to ten years. Thus proclaimed native heralds, by authority derived from President Gaston Doumergue of the French Republic...
...appearance is more presentable than distinguished. Aged 52, he has a wife, six children. Ten years after publication, Buddenbrooks had gone through 50 editions. Its author remains, now as then, the follower of no master, the founder of no school, as important a writer as Germany possesses...
...Barbee '28, premier University moundsman who has scored nine victories in ten starts, will do the hurling honors for Harvard. It is likely that he will be opposed by Foster Sanford, counted formost among college pitchers, who held the Crimson hitters helpless for six frames on Soldiers Field six weeks ago. On that occasion, Harvard rallfed in the closing innings, but was unable to overcome a big lead, and succumbed by 11 to 7. Barbee did not appear in this game...
There is an obvious contrast between the warfare of Count von Luckner and that of the average U-boat commander, which marks emphatically the contrast between the scientific and the personal in war. One submarine did ten times the damage done by the Sea Eagle; but it is not to the deadly reptiles of the under-ocean but to the daring sailing-vessel of the surface that the pain for valor goes...
Since 1925, when the Commonwealth Fellowships were established, 63 young men and women have come from the United Kingdom to the United States, of whom ten have chosen to study at Harvard, eight at Yale, eight at Columbia, and smaller numbers at other institutions. This year, four of twenty Common-wealth Fellows have chosen Harvard. The awards are made by a British Committee of Award, of which H. R. H. the Prince of Wales is honorary chairman and Sir Walter Buchanan-Riddell, Principal of Hetford College, Oxford, Chairman. So many applicants appeared for the first set of appointments that...