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Word: tens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...itself constitutes a reserve of several million tons, and it is in every way likely that a seam of such thickness will be found to be more extensive. It is anticipated that further drilling will prove the deposit to be truly a large and important one. The present ten holes merely constitute a start in our exploratory program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coal Holes | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...spoke loudly but each spoke often. They were selling silver and they were gathered in the silver exchange. In Peking and Shanghai similar groups were gathered. They too were selling. When they were through selling last week silver prices in London and Wall Street reached the lowest low in ten years: approximately 50⅞? an ounce. A month ago Chinese speculators held approximately 20,000,000 ounces of silver, at the end of last week they had sold 50,000,000, were apparently on the short side to the extent of 30,000,000 ounces. No El Dorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fallen Silver | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...consequence is that if you had a general congress of all such reformers?not merely members of a particular society but all the people who are demanding sex reform?there would be a curious cross-party organization. Probably the Pope would find that on nine points out of ten he was warmly in sympathy with Dr. Marie Stopes. And all of them would probably disagree on such a question as the age of consent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Emancipation | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...larger ministry whose influence and field of service is national." He said he had time and again been invited to other pulpits, had invariably declined. But now he had been asked to join the firm of Ward, Wells & Dreshman, specialists in philanthropic, educational and religious financing. In the past ten years this Manhattan firm has raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Minister's Business | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...wife. The famed young man has always found it difficult to grasp the inward significance of mathematical and other studious problems. The "wife," or in terms divorced from West Point slang, the famed young man's West Point roommate, is a "star man," standing in the first ten of the first class. He is good at all things studious. His name is J. A. K. Herbert. He is Captain of B Company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cagle & Co. | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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