Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accomplished in other words, to regard him as a brick in the structure of things rather than as a human being. Both these books are written with the second purpose. To Mr. Bradford, Darwin is the work he did; to M. Clemenceau, Demosthenes' personality is not worth a tenth the space demanded by his significance in world history...
...President Herbert Smith of the British Miners' Federation revealed last week that $4,000,000 (?822,634) had been contributed to British strike funds by Russian labor. Said he: "Thank God there is some Christianity in Russia T A tenth of all we have paid out to relieve the miners has come from Moscow...
Rabbits had been used for the tests on animal tissue. A tenth of a second's exposure for a patch of ear-skin had made the patch lose its hair and turn dark. Not for seven weeks did hair reap, pear. Another patch was exposed for a second. A scab formed in a few days, fell off taking the hair with it-and in two weeks a growth of new hair, white instead of grey and thrice as profuse as previously, sprouted...
Chinese celebrated throughout the World last week the "Double Ten Festival," "the tenth day of the tenth month," the day on which a bomb exploded in Hankow fifteen years...
...under Yuan Shih-kai and the rival southern republic under Sun Yatsen. Both these "presidents" died,-the former at the height of power, allegedly by poison; the latter a weary exile in cold Peking. China became the spoil of numerous Tuchuns or provincial governors. One year ago, on "the tenth day of the tenth month," there was a relatively stable northern Government at Peking, and the southern Government at Canton weltered in the doldrums of impotence. During the past year this situation has sensationally reversed itself...