Word: 9th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...either edge of the U. S. are two of the greatest private libraries in the world. The Huntington Library in Pasadena and the Morgan Library in Manhattan are keen rivals. But in illuminated vellum manuscripts of the 9th to the 16th centuries the Morgan Library stands supreme. By the terms of the Elder Morgan's will they have been available to duly accredited scholars for many years. They are not, nor can they ever be, available to the public. In 1924 when the Morgan Library was handed over to a group of trustees as a semi-public institution...
...good playing went together. On the short 7th, with the match all square, the defending champion sank a 45-ft. putt for a two. It made her one up for the first time in 21 holes. Trying desperately to catch up, Helen Hicks had a good chance at the 9th, until her opponent laid her a dead stymie. A 75-yd. spade shot that stopped three inches from the cup at the 12th put Miss Van Wie three up. On the 15th, both balls were on the green in two, but Helen Hicks's had bitten into the soft...
Major General Ewing E. Booth, commander of the Philippine Department, to command the 9th Corps Area (San Francisco). Also a War hero (Marne, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne), onetime deputy Chief of Staff, General Booth is fair-headed, slight, bubbling with nervous energy. He is noted for loyalty to his subordinates...
...Duchess, born Gladys Marie Deacon in Boston, made no reply. By last week she was used to the peculiar ways of the Duke, fretful Charles Richard John ("Sunny" for Sunderland) Spencer-Churchill, 61, 9th of his line...
...sound state of Virginia finances. These Candidate Peery solemnly vowed to carry on. Born 59 years ago on his father's farm in the southwest corner of the State, George Peery plowed, clerked in a store, taught school, studied law under John William Davis at Washington & Lee. The 9th Congressional District in which he lived had been under the Republican thumb of the Slemps, Father Campbell and Son Bascom, for 25 years. In 1922 Democrat Peery defeated the Slemp candidate, went to the House, stayed there six years. A modest, substantial citizen, married and the father of three...