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Word: tens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many of this year's Freshmen are the sons of college and non-college graduates. Of the 853, 368 representing 48 per cent, are the sons of college graduates. Of this number, 321 are the sons of Harvard graduates, ranging from the class of 1875 to that of 1911. Ten foreign universities and 67 colleges in the United States are represented by the parents of the remaining 147 first year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class of 1932 Superior Scholastically to Freshmen of Last Year--Large Percentage are Sons of Harvard Graduates | 4/25/1929 | See Source »

...music store on Holyoke St., and play victoria records continuously until one or the other should fall asleep or faint of fatigue. To the winner the proprietor of the shop promised to award a handsome prize of twenty-five dollars, and to the loser a generous prize of ten dollars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 4/24/1929 | See Source »

...have seen times when twenty-five dollars would ransom a king, and ten dollars was a fortune, but when Harvard, famed for its indifference and its gray matter, resumes again the antics of its prep school-days, and we cannot help but sigh. --The Radcliffe Daily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 4/24/1929 | See Source »

Senator Couzens' establishment of a ten million dollar fund for the betterment of the children of Michigan is not just another philanthropic foundation. For the entire principle and interest is to be spent within twenty-five years and none of the money is to go for scholastic research or for individual aid. The endowment will be used where it will show almost immediate and tangible results. Where others perhaps think for the good of the future in terms of dollars and the study of pure science, the Michigan senator prefers to deal with the human element...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TODAY AND TOMORROW | 4/23/1929 | See Source »

...first University crew will have but ten days in which to round into form before the race with the Engineers, who inaugurated their season on Saturday with a three length victory over the Navy eight on the Severn. This was the first Technology win over the Middles in nine years of racing and it portends that the Crimson oarsmen have no easy time ahead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWN SELECTS SWAIM TO STROKE UNIVERSITY CREW | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

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