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...half the score was 18 to 16 for the schoolboys but as the last period opened the Crimson quintet pulled themselves up to tie Exeter 22-all after seven minutes of play. From this point on Exeter rapidly drew away piling up a ten-point lead by the end of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvee Hoopstera Lose to Strong Exeter Team 44-34 | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

...Ten-Point Program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PUBLIC SERVANTS NEED SPECIALIZED TRAINING | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...undergraduates drew up a ten-point program to supply a "long needed trained personnel in the administrative branches of municipal, state, and Federal governments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PUBLIC SERVANTS NEED SPECIALIZED TRAINING | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Moses had a ten-point program for fixing up his part of the world. Woodrow Wilson had 14. Governor La Follette has five and Fulgencio Batista has 20 (see p. 24). Numerically pretty close to the average, therefore, is the eleven-pointer Herbert Hoover has evolved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Points | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...minimum and many a brokerage house upped it as high as 50% in special cases. On the 7,000,000-share "black Tuesday" fortnight ago, of the 15 most active stocks only four closed at prices above $18.12-and until a stock rises over that figure the old ten-point margin requirement means a margin of at least 55%. On the basis of this data, the new short-sale restriction was an empty gesture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 40% Bulls & 50% Bears | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

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