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Convert English to a number without built-ins or libraries

This challenge is similar to this other, however I made a restriction (see bold text below) that I think would made it much diffent and (I hope) fun either.

The Challenge

Write a program or a function in any programming language that takes as input the English name of a positive integer n not exceeding 100 and returns n as an integer.

Standard loopholes are forbidden and you cannot use any built-in function, external tool, or library that already does this job.

Shortest source code in bytes wins.

Test

Here all the input->output cases:

one              -> 1
two              -> 2
three            -> 3
four             -> 4
five             -> 5
six              -> 6
seven            -> 7
eight            -> 8
nine             -> 9
ten              -> 10
eleven           -> 11
twelve           -> 12
thirteen         -> 13
fourteen         -> 14
fifteen          -> 15
sixteen          -> 16
seventeen        -> 17
eighteen         -> 18
nineteen         -> 19
twenty           -> 20
twenty-one       -> 21
twenty-two       -> 22
twenty-three     -> 23
twenty-four      -> 24
twenty-five      -> 25
twenty-six       -> 26
twenty-seven     -> 27
twenty-eight     -> 28
twenty-nine      -> 29
thirty           -> 30
thirty-one       -> 31
thirty-two       -> 32
thirty-three     -> 33
thirty-four      -> 34
thirty-five      -> 35
thirty-six       -> 36
thirty-seven     -> 37
thirty-eight     -> 38
thirty-nine      -> 39
forty            -> 40
forty-one        -> 41
forty-two        -> 42
forty-three      -> 43
forty-four       -> 44
forty-five       -> 45
forty-six        -> 46
forty-seven      -> 47
forty-eight      -> 48
forty-nine       -> 49
fifty            -> 50
fifty-one        -> 51
fifty-two        -> 52
fifty-three      -> 53
fifty-four       -> 54
fifty-five       -> 55
fifty-six        -> 56
fifty-seven      -> 57
fifty-eight      -> 58
fifty-nine       -> 59
sixty            -> 60
sixty-one        -> 61
sixty-two        -> 62
sixty-three      -> 63
sixty-four       -> 64
sixty-five       -> 65
sixty-six        -> 66
sixty-seven      -> 67
sixty-eight      -> 68
sixty-nine       -> 69
seventy          -> 70
seventy-one      -> 71
seventy-two      -> 72
seventy-three    -> 73
seventy-four     -> 74
seventy-five     -> 75
seventy-six      -> 76
seventy-seven    -> 77
seventy-eight    -> 78
seventy-nine     -> 79
eighty           -> 80
eighty-one       -> 81
eighty-two       -> 82
eighty-three     -> 83
eighty-four      -> 84
eighty-five      -> 85
eighty-six       -> 86
eighty-seven     -> 87
eighty-eight     -> 88
eighty-nine      -> 89
ninety           -> 90
ninety-one       -> 91
ninety-two       -> 92
ninety-three     -> 93
ninety-four      -> 94
ninety-five      -> 95
ninety-six       -> 96
ninety-seven     -> 97
ninety-eight     -> 98
ninety-nine      -> 99
one hundred      -> 100
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