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  • Tenth is filled with heartfelt observations from die-hard fans and observers, including Boston writer Mike Barnicle, who recalls his then-11-year-old son's "tears as big as hubcaps" following the Sox's 2003 playoff loss to the Yanks.

    Ken Burns pitches extra 'Inning' this fall 2010

  • While the most frequent feeder to the high court has by far has been the federal appellate bench, the Solicitor General, who oversees the government's litigation before the Supreme Court is sometimes referred to as the Tenth Justice, and her previous clerkship at the Supreme Court won't hurt either.

    Brian Levin, J.D.: The President's Different and Enigmatic Supreme Court Choice 2010

  • The name Tenth Square is a reference to Colonial times, when the city's mercantile activity centered on the 'tenth square', a group of streets plotted to the southeast between the harbor.

    New Haven Independent 2008

  • The name Tenth Square is a reference to Colonial times, when the city's mercantile activity centered on the 'tenth square', a group of streets plotted to the southeast between the harbor.

    New Haven Independent 2008

  • Once you get to know Manhattan, realise that it’s mostly laid out in a blindingly simple system you don’t just know that "the corner of First Avenue and Tenth" is in the East Village; you know exactly where it is in the East Village.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Once you get to know Manhattan, realise that it’s mostly laid out in a blindingly simple system you don’t just know that "the corner of First Avenue and Tenth" is in the East Village; you know exactly where it is in the East Village.

    Creative Control - Part 5 Hal Duncan 2009

  • It looked just like the one in her Beast-ology textscroll that the Greek hero Heracles had fought in a famous battle known as the Tenth Labor.

    Aphrodite the Beauty Joan Holub 2010

  • It looked just like the one in her Beast-ology textscroll that the Greek hero Heracles had fought in a famous battle known as the Tenth Labor.

    Aphrodite the Beauty Joan Holub 2010

  • In one Book, called the Tenth Book by some, a Book yet to be written, a Book already burned, a yawn rose in the Crossroads of Twilight.

    Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time 10: Crossroads of Twilight (2003) Adam Roberts 2010

  • It looked just like the one in her Beast-ology textscroll that the Greek hero Heracles had fought in a famous battle known as the Tenth Labor.

    Aphrodite the Beauty Joan Holub 2010

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