Word: nine
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Oregon, the U.S. Census Bureau reported, is now the fastest-growing state in the union. In nine years of Pacific Coast boom the state's population has increased 59.3% (to an estimated...
Last week, as the delegates solemnly signed the nine sheets of paper spread out on the green baize table in The Hague's medieval Ridderzaal, The Netherlands formally relinquished her 300-year rule over her rich island empire. There seemed to be at least a fair chance that the new Indonesian Republic might become a stable island in the Communist-roiled waters of Southeast Asia...
Plump, apple-cheeked Gustave Marquot, who lives with his family 100 yards from the plant, spends two hours of his nine-hour day at his desk, the other seven talking to workers or watching them make glass. He and his employees use the familiar tu when speaking to one another, but there is no doubt who is boss. A TIME correspondent recently watched Marquot among his workers. Against the eerie background of a dozen gaping furnaces belching fire, men & women moved swiftly as fireflies carrying red-hot glass at the end of prongs, molding, blowing, cooling. There was not much...
...training in Fachenburg, Bavaria, started at the age of nine, when after school chores in his father's shop were in order. These chores were good experience in more than shoemaking. Rushing the growler for his father, Peter found it expeditions to slip off a hit of the beer that might otherwise have spilled in transit. "In a family of fourteen, anyhow, there never was enough milk for everybody...
...entire United States there are only nine other complete Gutenberg Bibles while about 30 others were distributed around the rest of the globe before the World War II broke...