Word: nine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opportunity to take a nine months cadet flying course winding up at Kelly Field will be opened to Harvard men when an Army board visits the University on November 27, 28, and 29, it was announced yesterday by the Placement Office...
...Hedda Hopper, with this story up her sleeve, heard that a rival columnist was about to break it. On a Saturday night at nine o'clock, with three hours to make the deadline for the Times early-morning editions, she picked up a telephone and tried to get James Roosevelt at his home in Beverly Hills. Two hours later she was still ringing, had got no answer. So Hedda Hopper sat down and wrote her story...
Last week Devi Dja and her group of 20-odd mum, placid-faced little Balinese landed in Manhattan. With them was Prince Raden Waloejo, cousin of Java's reigning sultan, himself a pretty good dancer of the Wajang-Wong (ancient Balinese national epic). Also in the troupe were nine gamelan musicians with queer gongs and xylophones, a special Balinese cook to home-cook rice and fish, Devi Dja's younger (18) sister Devi Emah with her ten-months-old baby...
...have observed that, at least in cities, U. S. women cannot do without silk stockings, and silk stockings wear out continually so that even a temporary buyers' strike is next to impossible. So by last week raw silk cost U. S. hosiers as much as $3.55½ a nine-year peak price, up nearly $1 since August, up $1.75 since December. U. S. silkmen were full of confusion, distress, suspicion. Many a silkman was caught in short positions by a sudden, savage shortage. Some types of silk were not to be had at any price...
...about the same case as the British Admiralty. Unlike his fellow captain Luckner's writings, Captain Nerger's book on his raiding exploits was not generally known outside Germany. The first account in English is by one of his prisoners. Roy Alexander, an Australian wireless operator, spent nine months in one of the two mine compartments which served as brig for the Wolfs sardined, polyglot prisoners (100 when he,arrived, 400 at the peak...