Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...organization, but you still find time (40.8 days a year) for your favorite hobby. Reading is tops-closely followed by fishing, gardening, photography. Your usual golf score is around 95. (You had 12 golfballs at the beginning of 1947, and during the year you bought 13, found six, acquired nine by "other means." By the beginning of 1948 you had lost eleven, demolished seven, given away...
...county relief agent. He, not a Catholic, though surprised was immediately interested and agreed that we were entitled to share in the ration issue. He made us a substantial allowance which was a lifesaver (though he did mark me down as drawing the allotment for myself "and family of nine...
...however, we didn't have nearly enough of these new facts to give us a true-to-life portrait of the more than three million people who are reading TIME today. But now we have taken another look at you - by sending a cross-section of you a nine-page questionnaire. Because we were trying to get an over-all picture of TIME'S 1,800,000 men and 1,500,000 women readers from this large cross-section survey, we called our questionnaire About Your TIME Exposure, and the last question asked, "How about enclosing a snapshot...
Grandfather Henry was one of the nine children of John Wallace, a high-tempered farmer who emigrated from Ireland to Pennsylvania. Eight of the nine children died of consumptive diseases. But grandfather Henry lived to be almost 80-an ordained minister in the United Presbyterian Church, a doer and dreamer, a smoker of Pittsburgh stogies, a man of vast physical bulk, who quit the regular ministry to homestead, later to edit and write for the family's Wallaces' Farmer. He wrote a three-volume story of his life and a robust column, "Uncle Henry's Sabbath School...
...first, picketing was peaceful. Then, after pickets broke up a back-to-work movement, Univis got a court order re stricting picketing. Later, nine men & women were fined for violence, two of them given jail sentences. The U.E. local and international were fined $250 apiece...