Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort to pick out the ten filthiest words in the English tongue. The word at the head of the list is so unbelievably obscene by prevailing standards that I can only refer to it here as 'p***,' for fear of prosecution by the state authorities. 'Fuck' having come in tenth, our plan is to release the others at intervals, starting with number nine, and making public each subsequent one only when the sting has gone out of those preceding. Until then, p*** you. Hugo N. Crammett, Chairman Freedom Under Complete Knowledge
Bauer, captain and MVP of last winter's hockey team, follows all-Ivy safety and Rhodes Scholar Tom Williamson as the winner of the Francis H. Burr Scholarship. This cash award is presented to the senior who combines academic and athletic excellence. Bauer now ranks as the tenth highest scorer in Harvard history...
...moving symbol of this crisis is the trumpet's high A in the unfinished Mahler Tenth Symphony (1910), piercing through a savage discord. The orchestra is poised midway between the old and new. Mehler, a genius of almost supernatural penetration, had asked earlier...
This afternoon, Harvard turns its attention to the Greater Boston League with a game against Northeastern. A victory today is essential if the Crimson hopes to again its tenth GBL title in 17 years. Should Harvard win today, the championship is clinched; but should they lose, the title will rest on the outcome of Wednesday's game...
...able to raise forces (under the threat of the draft) as professional, responsible and dedicated to the aims of political direction which gives them everything to do the job except authority to win, bodes well for America. If your university faculties and students could be endowed with one-tenth of the patriotic responsibility so evident in your servicemen of all races and skin colors, U.S. leadership in the free world would be unchallenged...