Word: tens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while after the first Sputnik soared aloft two years ago, all Soviet scientists suddenly became ten feet tall, with brains to match. Since then, U.S. scientists have flocked to Russia and under the rules of the current thaw, have seen things that no Westerner had ever seen before. Interviewing the returnees produced a calm, post-panic assessment of just how good (and how backward) Russia's science is. See SCIENCE, Scouting the Russians...
Within hours of the court's decision, three loaded ore boats sailed out of Duluth harbor for the steel centers; within two hours maintenance workers began heating up coke ovens in Pittsburgh. By midweek the first pig iron would pour down white-hot from ten-story-high blast furnaces, thence become raw steel within less than 24 hours, bars and sheets within a week or so. Despite these quick reactions, the injunction was little more than an 80-day aspirin for an economy aching for a real cure of the steel crisis...
...present quota of 150,000 were made up of one or two racial groups, this would be a drop in the bucket for a population of 165,000,000," he stated. Jaffe suggested a new immigration act that has no national quotas, but sets a limit of ten per cent of the total for any one group of immigrants...
Physics concentrators at the University of Moscow outnumber their Harvard counterparts ten to one, according to John H. Van Vleck, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy...
...Vleck, a member of the five-man Harvard team sent to the universities of Moscow and Leningrad in February 1959, praised Soviet work in physics, stating that it had equaled the American level for the past ten years...