Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Purdue is one of the four Big Nine schools that still play Notre Dame. This season, for its opening game against the Irish, the Boilermakers worked up enough steam to press all the pants in South Bend. After playing inspired football all afternoon, Purdue was beaten by one heartbreaking point, 28-27-and hasn't been the same since. Said California's Coach Lynn Waldorf, late of Northwestern: "They not only beat you, but ruin your team [physically and mentally] for the next weekend...
...nine children, Dufy had to pinch centimes in his student days. "I concentrated on drawing," he remembers, "because paints were too expensive." That concentration made him a superb draftsman, with a quick, nervous but perfectly assured style reminiscent of Japan's 19th Century master, Hokusai. But Dufy did not begin to paint like Dufy until he was in his 403. He lived on the top of Montmartre, got along by designing wallpaper (see below), tapestries, upholstery and dresses...
...Nine thousand of the 11,000 tickets allotted to Harvard were sold here, while the surplus was returned to Princeton last week at the request of the Princeton Athletic Association, which needed them to fill local demands. Tickets turned in here this week will also be sent back to New Jersey, where they will go on sale before game time. A near capacity crowd is expected at the stadium, which holds...
...mind more exciting things were going on. Even before Tuesday, the GOP 51 to 45 Senatorial margin was pretty clearly in for a slice, if not obliteration. It was obliterated, all right, for not only did the Democratic Party hold all of its own seats, but it knocked off nine held by the Republicans. The new Senate line-up is a fat 54 to 42 for the President's party...
Tomorrow's game, the 41st renewal for the classic, opens 1948 competition for the Big Three Title and for the tenth time since the series was started in 1877 Princeton is defending champ. In its nine previous attempts at defending the crown, it has succeeded only once, and nine years ago, when Nassau last held the title, it was Harvard that upset the apple cart by holding the Tigers to a scoreless...