Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arrive ten minutes before the hounds are scheduled to start. If the fixture is near you, hack to it so as to find your seat. But do not take a short-cut through likely coverts...
...write a poem and have it read among the supreme ten-what exquisite happiness ! Every year at least 30,000 Japanese write and enter poems in the contest. If they live abroad they frequently cable them to the Imperial Household Ministry. Last week the Ministry announced, amid general rejoicing, that the set theme for Imperial Poems this year will be "KAIHEN NO IWAWO" or "ROCKS AT THE OCEAN'S FRINGE...
...usual, the sublime Emperor himself will write a tanka, but his will not be entered in the competition. Poems must be in by Dec. 16, will be judged at lightning speed by a competent corps of metrical experts, and the winning ten read at break of the New Year...
...nobody could keep tabs on him? In Chicago the athletic committee of the Western Conference questioned two professors this way and that. After a while they closed the door and talked over Iowa's petition that the committee rescind its motion, adopted last May, barring Iowa from Big Ten athletics after Jan. 1. They decided that, since Iowa had not removed the players originally objected to, Iowa could stay...
Aided by 51 newspapers throughout the land, Cineman Carl Laemmle's Universal Newsreel daily flashes current events before the eyes of ten million cinemagoers in 10,000 theatres. Last week Newsreeler Laemmle enlisted more aid. To replace the explanatory captions in his newsreels he contracted to have the explanations spoken by a voice already familiar to his customers, the radio baritone of Graham McNamee, broadcaster extraordinary. A new title was invented for the occasion: Talking Reporter...