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Word: nine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sixty-nine refugees who feared that the Russian threat might reach into Sweden for them crowded into the Prolific, a blunt-nosed fishing schooner, about half as big as the Mayflower. They had sailed over 6,000 miles of ocean to reach a U.S. haven. They had weathered storms in the Bay of Biscay and off Cape Finisterre. They had traded their clothes for grapes and coconuts in Madeira and broken their steering gear in a hurricane off Bermuda. Under leaky hatches in fetid, 90° heat, their women had nursed children sick with chicken pox. After 60 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Outward Bound | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Television's growing pains have been showing up on receiving screens as wobbly pictures and queer noises. Last week FCC Chairman Wayne Coy ordered a halt of from "three to nine months" on approvals of new TV station applications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Rest Cure | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Divorced. William P. (Bill) Odom, 28, record-breaking (73 hrs. 5 min.) round-the-world flyer (the Reynolds Bombshell); by Dorothy W. Odom, 28; after nearly nine years of marriage, two children; in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Both a Register and a Red Book? For the past nine months the Student Council has been toying with the idea of doing away with the ever present, if often belated Freshman Red Book. Now that the less complicated Register, with names and numbers and pictures of all newcomers, has come back on the scene, some Council members have questioned the need of the other, larger animal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Book | 10/8/1948 | See Source »

...Nine months is long enough. The Red Book business is old business, and it should be cleared away. Let the Council proceed with its polling and thinking with reasonable speed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Book | 10/8/1948 | See Source »

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