Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavy fog settled over the air corridors to blockaded Berlin. Instrument flying was the rule rather than the exception. On some days the airlift terminals were socked in so tightly that operations were suspended for as long as nine hours at a time. But after the first month of Germany's rugged winter weather, the daily average of cargo hauled stood at 4,229 tons-only some 300 tons below minimum needs...
...teams "the Legion of Apostles" last week preached vaccination against deadly aftosa (foot & mouth disease). Across central Mexico, the missionaries of science marched ahead to prepare the way for the nine vaccinating brigades of the joint U.S.-Mexican anti-aftosa commission...
...long tour (nine months in the Antipodes) of Sir Laurence Olivier and his Lady, Vivian Leigh, came to an end at Tilbury Docks, with the most adroit curtain call of the week. The veteran troupers managed to impart a little of their own sure charm to what would otherwise have been a routine ship-news photograph...
...wasn't in the Rose Bowl yet, for Oregon too was unbeaten in Pacific Coast Conference games. That left the Rose Bowl choice to the vote of all ten Pacific Coast Conference schools. This week they picked California. Its opponent: Northwestern, which is second best in the Big Nine. Under the strange terms of the Rose Bowl contract, Big Nine Champion Michigan, which played in the last Rose Bowl (and beat Southern California, 49-0), is ineligible to return for two more years...
...Boswell's main, lifelong concern was always Dr. Johnson. Among the newly discovered pages of the Life is the record of his first impression of the Doctor: "... A man of most dreadful appearance . . . troubled with sore eyes, the palsy, and the King's evil [scrofula]." By 1772, nine years later, the new papers show, Boswell was writing Garrick that he was "determined" to write Johnson's life. He even interviewed a member of Johnson's household as to the Doctor's "amorous propensities...