Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...love to overturn the calendar. In 1793 French Republicans, flushed with political success, changed the names of all the months from the prosaic January, February, March to the more descriptive Pluviōse (rainy) Ventōse (windy), Germinal (budding), etc. They divided each month into three "weeks" of ten days each, and dated everything from the First day of the Year 1 (Sept. 22, 1792), the date of the proclamation of the first French Republic. The French Republican calendar lasted nearly 15 years, died a natural death during the reign of Napoleon as Emperor...
...ten years Dr. Hans Sattler, shell-shocked German-born Hungarian engineer has lived in a quiet Budapest suburb, trying to forget the War. Daytime it was easy, but at night he could not sleep. Recently Dr. Sattler's neighbors began to worry about the young man. They found that he left home every night, returned each morning with sleepless eyes, unshaven, his clothes muddy. Last week a local surgeon and several of Dr. Sattler's friends waited until the shell-shocked engineer left his home, followed him at a distance until he disappeared in a neighboring wood. Hours...
...Flung Huey, carrying on the Joe Forecast tradition of predicting only the approximate score of Harvard games, asserts that the Crimson eleven will come within ten points, above or below, the 53-point total amassed the last time Bates was played...
Charge of the Ten Thousand...
Included in the shipment were scores of other French classics among which were books by Beaumarchais, St. Pierre, Boileau, Corneille, Diderot, La Fontainc. Rochefoucault, Moliere, Montaigne, Montesquieu, Racine, Vegnry, Voltaire, and many others which are used in the study of French Literature at Harvard. Of the ten censored works at least two are known to be read in French courses here. Rabelais' stories are studied in courses of sixteenth century French Literature while extracts from Rousseau's "Confessions" are also used...