Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dunes at 42 m. p. h. It was the newest thing in combat tanks. Powered by a 12-cylinder Liberty motor, it rushed 62 m. p. h. down a road on eight hard-rubber tires. In 14 minutes it was converted into a caterpillar tractor, ready to hurtle its ten tons, its three-man crew, its full armament, cross-country nearly four times as fast as any tank similarly armored had moved before...
...Sibley Warehouse reposed between 3,000 and 4,000 barrels, 50,000 cases of ten-and twelve-year-old Bourbon. Protecting it were 31, government gaugers and storekeepers. Some 250 dry agents could come and go in the warehouse premises. Craftily, more than 500 barrels, 2,000 cases were tapped, their fuming contents siphoned out. Back inside was poured a concoction of colored water and alcohol which would show the proper proof to deceive gaugers but which even a "sick" person would never mistake for old whiskey. For a year these illegal extractions at Sibley Warehouse had been in progress...
Only one year ago, sad Amanullah had ten thousand times $30, dozens of suits of clothes. Touring Europe he rode with Kings, witnessed sham battles, inspected shops in each country he visited, blithely accepted magnificent gifts bestowed in the hope that he would make even more magnificent purchases...
...slanting eyes of Ye-Ho-No-La made ardent avowal to the equally slanting, equally ardent eyes of her intended bridegroom, Yong-Lou. Both were aged ten. But at 15 she forsook the projected match for an infinitely worthier match. To the eternal glory of her family and the Manchu race, Ye-Ho-No-La became one of the 30 concubines attending the young Emperor of China. But the latter was a degenerate. His energy was spent in painting the town violet. Ye-Ho-No-La's problem was to convert the imperial energy to her own use, to induce...
...more woe than anything else in life. A folkstory says this stomach is "lined with silver." The Master dons one of several hundred ties, selects one of 60 suits. He glances at the New York Times. At 8 he masticates eclectically. After breakfast someone reads a Bible for ten minutes. At 10 dark glasses are put on and John D. goes out for golf. The whole year he never loses more than three balls. When he wins he does a happy little Charleston. If a flapper is around he may remark: "You ought to kiss my hand for that...