Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon sun shafted down through the skylights of Ottawa's gloomy, barnlike Coliseum. Floodlights played on the poster portraits of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Twenty-nine years ago Mr. King had taken over from his longtime friend Sir Wilfrid. Now 1,227 delegates to the National Liberal Convention were picking Mr. King's successor...
...nine years, Rule 904-the local judges' answer to trial by headline-has gagged Baltimore papers in their coverage of crime. It forbids news of confessions, bars comments by anyone bearing on a trial, prohibits pictures of the accused without his consent...
Since its beginning less than three years ago Stoke has examined 2,725 candidates, passed only 608. Though a Conservative M.P. recently complained in the House of Lords that Stoke was turning out "plausible smart alecks," the government's Final Selection Board has accepted Stoke's recommendations nine out of ten times. Foreign service takes all its officers from Stoke; home service still chooses some by written and oral exams. U.S. Civil Service Commissioner Arthur S. Flemming, after watching 21 candidates go through Stoke, returned to the U.S. "definitely impressed." Said he last week: "The ones that survived...
...little Ben, 137 pounds of spring steel, didn't know his own strength. He slashed through three rounds for a neat 207-nine under par and three ahead of the field. In second place was good-natured Ed ("Porky") Oliver, of Seattle, who is heavy on the hoof but steady on the fairway. In the final round, Porky overtook Hogan and at one point was two strokes ahead; then he dropped back. On the last hole, Hogan needed to sink a 20-ft. putt to salt down the $2,500 first prize. But his putt curled away from...
...pigtailed, freckled nine-year-old tripped into the Cleveland Press last week and asked to see the editor. Instead of being shooed away, she was led straight to his office. Louis B. Seltzer shook Ruth Harriger by the hand, then gravely read the note she thrust out to him. It was from Ruth's father, an ex-Clevelander now living in New Mexico. He had written her to be sure to call on the Press while visiting in Cleveland. Busy Editor Seltzer dropped everything to take her on a tour of his shop, bought her an ice cream...