Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week in 1927, a great number of Americans will take ship for France, and their name will be Legion-American Legionnaires, 15,000 to 50,000 strong, it is expected. The destination will be Paris for the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the U. S. entrance into...
Captain Rooney of the Technology aggregation was the next to finish, fourth place being closely contested by Rooney's team-mate, Rick. Sixth, seventh and ninth places were taken by Horpe, Akerly and Smith, all of Technology, while eighth and tenth were captured by Edward Gordon '27 and Peppino Porfilio '26, respectively...
...Army Board. He said the money requirement would be over 90 millions a year for ten years. He pointed out that 90 millions was more than a third of what is now appropriated for the regular Army and "all overhead." The pay for Air Service in the tenth year would be more than a fourth of what is now appropriated for the pay of the entire Army. The cost of a separate Air Service he estimated as even greater...
Looking insufferably bored, Glenna Collett saw her ball dip over a swell of grass and disappear into the tenth hole of the course of the St. Louis Country Club. Her father was a famous amateur bicycle rider. Her bust measurement is 36 inches. She had on a lemon sweater, buff skirt, tan hat. The public displayed some interest in these facts because, by virtue of that putt, she won for the second time the U. S. women's golf championship...
...only game you could play on that course. Next day, though cloudy, was better. The sun and the gallery came doubtfully out. At the end of the morning round Miss Collett was four up. She played the first ten holes in the afternoon in even fours. On the tenth green, when that last putt scuttled out of sight like a round, obedient white mouse, the match ended and out of her eternal preoccupation, Miss Collett smiled vaguely at the shouting multitude. "Her height is 5 feet 5," reporters rushed off to scribble; "she weighs 125 pounds; she was born...