Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fullback Chip Gannon leads in the overall Varsity ground-gaining department with only two games remaining on the 1948 football schedule. The Chipper has clicked off 371 yards in 74 tries, rushing 63 times for 362 yards and completing one pass for nine yards...
Radcliffe students flocked in yesterday to give 20 percent of the total amount. Thirty-nine Radcliffe pledges put the pledge drive over its 200-pint top, and Robert P. Hyde '51, co-chairman of the drive, said last night that Annex students were doing "more than their share...
...Some nine years ago, a Swiss chemist named Paul Müller was busy in a laboratory in Basel, looking for a drug to protect plants against insects. Trying one combination of chemicals after another, he finally found one that killed flies. He took some of the stuff home, and discovered that it killed mosquitoes too. Dr. Mller's compound was dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane...
...Decent Character. His father was a bluff, warmhearted German-Jewish immigrant who had achieved his principal ambition-to become an American. Julius Oppenheimer had also made a very considerable success as a Manhattan textile importer: the Oppenheimers had a country house at Islip, N.Y., a sunny, nine-room apartment on Riverside Drive with three Van Gogh originals hanging in the living room. Julius doted on his son, took him to Europe four times and asked only that the boy be "a decent character...
...surprise was the spectacular comeback of the railroads. Thanks to rate boosts which were beginning to show their full effects, railroads, notably in the East, were having their best peacetime year since 1929. For the first nine months of the year, the New York Central netted $13.1 million, compared with less than $452,000 in the same period last year. The Baltimore & Ohio was up about 200% (to $16.5 million), the Erie 210% (to $9.7 million). The Pennsylvania, which lost more than $7,000,000 in the first nine months last year, made the best gain: it showed...