Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emden sent a landing party ashore to destroy the wireless station of Port Refuge in the Keeling Islands. Up steamed the Australian cruiser Sydney, half again as large as the Emden. After a running fight which lasted ten hours the Emden was driven ashore, a blazing wreck...
...years ago as "Chang of Shantung" he wrung more than ten million dollars from its hapless people. When driven out by the Chinese Nationalists (TIME, Sept. 24), he absconded with women and loot to Dairen, bought the hugest house, made it huger, and tried to settle down with 30 pleasingly proportioned young females of assorted races. It was no use-too much of a good thing-and grizzled Marshal Chang sailed off conquistadoring...
...team, and Britain's cadaverous Captain George Duncan, had halved eight out of the first nine holes. Then Duncan had gone ahead to a five-hole lead. "Sure, I'll win. I always do," was the Hagen attitude. But dour George Duncan won, ten up and eight to go. Best medal scores (par was 71) : Diegel, 65, second day; Diegel and Espinosa 66, first day; Duncan, 69, second...
...world's tallest (870 ft.) tower. Other famed Ley Manhattan skyscrapers are Fisk Building, 57th & Broadway; Liggett Building, 42nd & Madison; Westinghouse Building, 150 Broadway. Mr. Ley has constructed office buildings, apartment buildings, factories, sewers, trolley lines, bridges, waterworks, dams, highways and war camps (Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass., built in ten weeks), but neither in his early days in Springfield, Mass., nor in his more recent Manhattan period did the five-day week enter into calculations on how long a job would take...
...navigator, Reserve Lieut. Albert D. Hulse as engineer, with others as yet unnamed, are to be the crew. A plane powered with five 420-h. p. Pratt & Whitney motors, with a cruising speed of 120 m. p. h. is to be the vehicle. Twenty-two refueling stations, including ten for emergency only, are to be established. Estimated cost...