Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week M. Leon Blum and his handful of Unified Socialist Deputies continued to flaunt their banner with the strange device "OBSTRUCTION!" M. Blum commands less than one-sixth of the votes in the Chamber; his cohorts represent less than one-tenth of the electorate of France. Yet it happens that, by supporting or refusing to support the bloc of Radicals and Radical-Socialists headed by M. Herriot, M. Blum has been able to obstruct and coerce the Cartel des Gauches,*upon which all the recent governments of France have been forced to rely for a majority...
General Kiio Sung-lien, commander of Chang's Tenth Division, was apparently the moving spirit behind this military coup; and despatches early in the week pictured him as "imprisoning" Chang at Mukden, his capital. Later it appeared that Chang's fortunes were not at quite so low an ebb, but that his power has certainly been badly shaken...
Ninety-six boys entered the University with the class of 1929 from Boston Latin, a quota of almost one-tenth the total number of the entering class. The weighted average, based on the score made by the seven highest candidates from Boston Latin, was 89.12 per cent. Taft School, of Watertown, Connecticut, was second with a weighted average of 88.35 per cent. Only two members of the Taft team, however, entered Harvard this fall...
...cabinet ministers of many thriving republics, resplendent with gold braid and Risorgimento mustachios, do not sit down to deliberate with one quarter of the dignity, with one tenth of the prestige, that attends the councils of a group of gentlemen who met last week to perform a perfunctory but important piece of business. They were the directors of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. The business was the selection of a new Chairman to fill the place of the late A. C. Bedford. Who that Chairman was to be had already of course been decided upon, but not until...
...Harvard CRIMSON, today celebrating the tenth anniversary of its present building, is the product of 53 years of strife and labor. It has a history of hardships overcome, of desperate competitions won, and of ever increasing success...