Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...range of intermediate tones. But the laborious process of cutting glass to the pattern of the cartoon, painting in details with an enamel of metallic oxides and ground glass, baking it, and finally assembling it with strips of lead is almost unchanged. Villon worked several months on sketches (one-tenth actual size), made monthly trips to Reims to supervise the work. Said he: "I would love to do others. But at my age that is not likely. I'm sorry they did not ask me to do this ten or 20 years...
...care you are able to give, you probably prefer not to have another too soon." In the past year, 14,000 pamphlets with these words have been sent to Ohio parents in and around Toledo. The sender: Toledo's Planned Parenthood League. Last December, soon after his tenth child was born, William Kunisch, a Roman Catholic mailman, received such a pamphlet in his own mail, promptly decided that a rebuttal was needed. With the help of his wife and the advice of Father Lawrence Ernst, moderator of Toledo's Catholic Lay Councils, Kunisch went to work. The Toledo...
...both dug in. They sprinted through the last lap like fresh quarter-milers. Lincoln's fine finishing kick brought him to the finish in 3:58.5. But Herb Elliott's incredible condition brought him home even faster than that. He was timed in 3:57.9, a fleeting tenth of a second faster than Aussie John Landy's listed world's record...
...Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, the festive celebrations are over. The tiny state of Israel (pop. 2,000,000) observed its tenth anniversary with more confidence than seemed warranted back in May 1948, when independence was audaciously proclaimed amid invading Arab armies...
Last week People's Daily celebrated the tenth anniversary of its birth in 1948 in Yenan, whence the Communist leaders had launched their grab for all China. Today the paper employs 500 card-carrying newsmen, has just moved into a gleaming new Peking building equipped with eight gleaming new presses from East Germany, and can claim some of the most devoted readers in the world. Issues are posted at city intersections, read aloud down on the farm, devoured top to bottom and right to left by jailed counter-revolutionaries taking the cure, and spelled out by Asiatic nomads...