Word: nine
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Whose Oligarchy? The issue this time was the Labor government's Parliament Bill, already twice approved by the House of Commons. The bill would reduce the time needed for the House of Commons to enact legislation over the Lords' disapproval, from two years to nine months...
...Labor government the difference between nine months and twelve seemed vital. Labor's long-heralded bill to nationalize the steel industry would not be ready for presentation to the House of Commons before next November. If the Lords could delay it only nine months, the bill could be law by the summer elections of 1950. Labor could then say to the electorate: "Look, we have done as we promised." But if the Lords could hold up steel for twelve months (or any other government measure on a similar timetable), Labor might not be able to complete its program before...
Vanport, Ore., on the banks of the Columbia River just outside Portland, was the nation's biggest wartime housing project. It was built in nine months, housed 40,000 people in its nearly 800 structures. At war's end, though many went elsewhere, 18,700 still remained...
Sore muscles were the main result of the morning's masculine melee, but in the afternoon Susan Wilson, an 18-year old Freshman from New Hampshire University, offered a sneaky fastball for three innings baffling a mixed nine which featured six comely outfielders...
Otherwise the exercises have been held every year since 1642, and although the traditional basis has been more or less the same, the tone of the festivities has varied greatly. A chronicle tells us that for the first exercises "nine Bachelours, the Governour, the Magistrates, and Ministers from all parts, with all sorts of scholars were present, and did hear their exercises. Then having dined together in Commons, they sang a Psalm and were well content." This note of austerity was lost toward the end of the Seventeenth Century, as the Harvard Commencement Day became a general State holiday...