Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...birdseed. Taking the affirmative side will be Tom Heflin, with a birdseye view of the mistake of allowing the Vatican more territory and a motion to prevent Al Smith from building the highest building in New York. Then will be a two weeks' discussion on prohibition, followed by ten days of Arizona Senators denouncing the Boulder Dam. "And by Christmas you won't know whether the birds got any seed or not.'' The prophet, Mr. Will Rogers, was wrong. The tariff bill was presented in the Senate last week by Senator Smoot. Two resolutions were offered...
...proved to be the darkest hour before the dawn. The room was insufferably hot. It all seemed over. Somebody moved for adjournment for ten minutes to give us a chance to get a breath of air. We broke up into little groups. The British remained in the conference room. The others went outside. Then the bargaining began...
...showing Friedrichshafen. Greenwich and New York time), arched his mephistophelian brows, and hastened to the first Hamburg-American liner available for Hamburg. A Hamburg-American it had to be, for that company aided Graf Zeppelin in her world flight. The first boat was the slow New York, which takes ten days for the crossing. As the indom- itable, tired oldster (he is 61) boarded her, his grey pants wrinkled from much conference sitting, his black lisle socks drooping from the legs of his white long-drawers he sighed
...suspended service to send every plane on the search. Col. Lind- bergh, the line's technical advisor, and his wife flew from Long Island to hunt. The aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga sent ten planes from San Diego harbor; the Army sent squadrons from Texas, California, Nebraska. Western Air Express pilots, keeping up their service, had orders to deviate from their fixed routes to scan remote terrain...
...FIVE AND TEN-Fannie Hurst-Harper...