Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dorothy Thompson looked even less the curt, mannish newshawk which some imagine her as she danced, in a low-cut gown, with Sinclair Lewis at a smart Berlin night bar. Before the week was out, however, she was indubitably in Moscow and remained there during the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Bolshevist regime. The exhaustive report of petite correspondent Dorothy Thompson has now reached the U. S. in its entirety and appeared in the papers which she serves. No sooner was it off the press, however, than a similar report was issued in book form...
...Bingham said that he was encouraged throughout the meeting by the feeling that Harvard undergraduate body with its deep interest in football was behind him anti exclusive of the alumni and their friends would probably make up a tenth of the spectators in the stadium. Both myself and the secretary of the Alumni Association feel that if the undergraduates can get any fun out of watching football games they should be accommodated in so far as they do not conflict with our other plans...
...City; hoping people noticed, last week, that John William Davis said: "Al Smith ... is highly acceptable to me;" hoping that it was wise to have let word go out, and it did go last week, that Candidate Smith will withdraw from the convention if not nominated by the tenth ballot; hoping that his refusal to fly with Col. Lindbergh ("No flying for me," he said) would not make him less popular...
Having glanced over the high spots of the nine preceding Triangular meets, it is interesting to note, with the tenth classic close at hand, that Harvard, Dartmouth and Gornell each have three victories to their credit. Dartmouth had the upper hand in the beginning, but Cornell soon usurped the Green supremacy. The Crimson athletes have most recently been masters of the situation, but if they are destined to hold their present situation and forge ahead of their opponents for a fourth consecutive triumph they will have to turn back two threatening track hordes in the Arena this coming Saturday night...
...greatest of Crimson track athletes and to reveal the brilliant record established by the immediate successors of the present team which faces one of its severest tests on Saturday evening, February 25. For when the University track team meets its two traditional foes, Cornell and Dartmouth, in the tenth Triangular meet in the Arena, it will bear the responsibility of maintaining the impressive row of successive victories chalked up against the Red and White and the Green invaders...