Word: tenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leaders. Poland is the amoeba of Europe. Since the Tenth Century the rhythm of its life has been grow, divide, grow, divide. The very first king to give Poland substantial nationhood (Boleslav, the Wry-mouthed, 1086-1139) split his inheritance between four sons. And the most recent man to contribute to Polish statehood, Marshal Pilsudski, similarly divided his power (though not his land) among three favorites...
...popularity is still impressive, but not so impressive as that of later rival food merchandisers like Jack Benny (JellO) or Bing Crosby (Kraft Music Hall). Last week Standard Brands and Vallée announced an amicable parting of the ways next September 28, within crooning distance of their tenth anniversary. Of his plans, Rudy Vallée characteristically observed: " 'My Time Has Been Your Time' for ten solid years, and it will be yours again after 'My Time Has Been My Time' for a little while...
...Yankee uniform. Thousands of New York's Italians, who up to that time had been content with boxing and boccie, began to stream into Yankee Stadium. "Poosh 'em up, Tony!" thereafter was the battle cry of the bleachers. In the World Series of 1936, on the tenth anniversary of his famed strikeout, "Poosh'em up Tony" reached the climax of his career when he hit a home run with the bases loaded-a feat that had been accomplished only once before in a World Series...
...Duke, who founded the Duke tobacco dynasty, got small Methodist Trinity College to move to Durham from a North Carolina village in 1892 by giving it $85,000, made it co-educational five years later by giving $100,000 more. When, in 1924, Buck Duke made little Trinity the tenth richest university in the land (endowment today: $30,000,000), it was glad not only to take his name but also to let him reshape it to his heart's desire...
...Manhattan, Miss Frances Thorpe parked her car at the door of her apartment building, told the doorman, "I'll be right down," went up to her tenth-floor apartment. Few minutes later she plunged to her death in the courtyard...