Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coming about an hour before it arrives. Marshall Pass (pop. 11) is the U.S.'s smallest post office. Gus, who has lived in Marshall Pass for the last 21 of his 64 years, has been postmaster since 1943. Said Gus: "I get maybe six letters a week, maybe nine. Maybe one package...
...going to quibble with you for an hour about whether it's real. That letter was written by my wife . . . I know anything that's in that letter you've forced her to write . . . I'm still not going back." After nine hours the major finally returned with his lone catch, the flight sergeant, who wanted to go back in the first place. The plane was also returned...
...then became tangled for a few years; the Board of Overseers, for instance, was a strange mixture of Northern Whigs, Free Soilers, and Democrats. But by 1860, the dominant Republican sentiment, which has lasted down to the present, was clear. A poll of the Class of 1860 turned up nine Democrats, 23 Constitutional Unionists, and 74 Republicans. The Unionists held the College's first torchlight parade shortly before election that year, carrying signs such as "Bell (the party candidate) and the Belles, 1860, Harvard...
...biggest surprise in the 1932 College poll was not that Hoover licked F. D. R., 1211 to 395, but that Norman Thomas, the Socialist candidate, fell only nine votes short of Roosevelt. Still the surprise was not half so significant as the statistical fact that depression and national misery could only serve to strengthen Harvard's faith in the Republican...
Members of the Speakers and Entertainers Committee will travel to nine of the 49 settlement houses and boys' clubs in which Brooks House men operate regularly...