Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months, since leaving the battlefields of France, ten regiments of Silidar cavalry had sweated and suffered the tortures of the damned in the valley of the Dead Sea. Now we were moving by forced marches at night to be on time for Zero Hour, to have the honor of storming an entrenched position, to relieve the Jews of the onus of crusading on their own account...
...compensation for landowners there was provided by the plan because its supporters declared: 1) that those valleys had always been inundated in great floods; 2) that they would be deprived of no flood protection that they had previously had; 3) that they would be inundated only once in ten or 15 years; 4) that the land there was about 80% swamp and forest...
...Bermuda to Halifax in ballast, plowed through the seas. The Canadian ensign flew at her masthead; all lights were showing. Suddenly out of the darkness streaked a little U. S. Coast Guard boat. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang -deafeningly five 4-lb. shells were fired, the last from within ten yards of the Shawnee's rail. One shell entered the port side astern, grazed the exhaust pipe and passed out to starboard just above the water line. If the exhaust pipe had been hit the ship would have gone up in flames. Another shot struck the wheelhouse rail. After...
...Another beneficiary is Eleanor Post Hutton, headlined debutante. Scorning both alcohol and Grandpa Post's Postum, she consumes eight to ten cups of coffee a day during the party season...
...University squad, taking advantage of the cooler weather trampled completely on the seconds, ripping off first downs at will. The aerial attack, which shows promise of becoming one of the real offensive threats this year; again clicked to perfection. Six forwards out of eight attempts were completed along with ten lateral passes. Charles Devens, Mays, and Mason each crossed the goal line twice, while T. W. Gilligan, Harding, Moushegian, Batchelder, White, and Newhardt each scored once. Potter reeled off a 100 yard run but the score was disallowed because of an offside play...