Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decade of high-gear progress was proudly reported last week by the American Heart Association as it celebrated the tenth anniversary of its reorganization from a narrow-based group of medical specialists to a broad-based outfit with national public participation. In this period, said President Robert W. Wilkins of Boston at the commemorative meetings in San Francisco, surgery on the heart itself has leaped from a hesitant, tentative approach to one of great confidence: there is now nobody with acquired or congenital heart disease who cannot be considered as a prospect for surgery, and many cases can be helped...
...tenth progress report, released Sept. 30, the Program had received 57.3 per cent of the projected $82.5 million, and by now the figure has probably passed $50 million...
...pamphlets for the Development Fund will describe the projects for which most of the money is slated. One leaflet will cover endowments; another, the scholarship and student aid programs. Others will discuss Radcliffe's part in the new theatre, to which the Annex will contribute $250,000; the proposed tenth dormitory; and the Women's Archives and scholarly publications issued by the college...
...Iowa's Fourth District, an area of small (less than 300 acres) farms running southeast from Des Moines, the state's politics can be seen in microcosm. There, in 1956, Republican Incumbent Karl Le-Compte, 71, won his tenth term by running strong in small towns and carrying 50.7% of the vote against Farmer-Lawyer Steven Carter, 43. This year LeCompte has retired, but Democrat Carter, still trying, is making headway among farmers caught in the cost-price squeeze and in the squeezed small towns that depend on farmers. To replace LeCompte, the Republicans nominated personable John...
...could bring it off. In the second inning Milwaukee led 2-1, and loaded the bases. But Howard was there again, this time to catch Johnny Logan's short fly, make a perfect peg home to throw out lumbering Andy Pafko by 15 ft. In the tenth inning the ubiquitous Howard singled and scored what proved to be the winning run as the Yankees licked Spahn...