Word: tenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fast time of 10:02. Hanlen, of Kirkland, came in second turning in 10:09. Porter, of Leverett, was fourth with 10:10; fifth Dave Wilson, Leverett, 10:34; sixth, Mead, Dunster 10:37; seventh, Smith, Eliot, 10:38; eighth, Wills, Adams, 10:-39; ninth, Fiske, Eliot, 10:48; tenth, Story, Lowell...
...published in 1904, when he was 40, has sold about a million copies. Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson's If Winter Comes, published in 1921, when he was 42, sold 558,649 copies in the U. S. alone. Last week their latest novels (Hichens' 36th, Hutchinson's tenth) served chiefly as reminders that these once tremendously popular novelists were still alive. They also served as reminders that best-selling novels, while still frequently inexplicable, now show a big improvement over those of the last generation...
...establishes himself as a favorite for next Monday, but the rest of the Yale team is weak, while the Harvard team, led by Junior Gene Clark, came in strongly in bunch behind the winner, taking third, fourth, sixth, eighth and ninth, while the second Yale men, Lee Shapleigh, was tenth...
...retiring President Frothingham: "Broadly speaking, there has for some time been no flow of new capital, the capital that employs men. From an average of $5,000,000,000 of new capital raised annually in 1924 to 1929, this has fallen to only $500,000,000, or to one-tenth...
...ever scornful of anything that looks like uplift, called his friend "old Bleeding Heart Broun," "the fat Mahatma." Two months ago, Columnist Pegler jabbed a particularly tender spot. American Newspaper Guild President Broun was operating a scab shop, he wrote, because the Connecticut Nutmeg, of which Broun is one-tenth owner-editor, had hired a non-union reporter. Next week, from his regular page in the New Republic, President Broun heatedly denied he had anything to do with hiring, pointed out that the reporter had immediately joined the Guild, scolded Guild rank-&-filer Pegler for not coming to meetings more...