Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine others charged but found innocent, four are back at their former jobs; one of them working for the Dominion government, one for a Montreal newspaper and two others, a physician and an optometrist, at their own practices in Toronto. The rest of the acquitted have had to get other jobs. One of them, a biochemist, went to Paris to work after vainly trying for a year to get a place in Canada...
Gone from London: Mae West, homeward bound after nine months. She had gained 6 lbs. on austerity meals, said she -which brought her up to 126, said...
...Boston's Charles River, Harvard's once-beaten crew won the Eastern Championship over nine rivals and thus boosted its chances of becoming the U.S. Olympic choice. Yale, ahead until the final few yards, was second. Harvard's big rival is now unbeaten Cornell. Cornell had kept a date with unbeaten Wisconsin on Lake Mendota, won by half a boat length...
...month's issue, the Catholic Worker begins its 16th year. Old Peter Maurin, now in his 70s, is crippled and numbly dying of arteriosclerosis of the brain. But the Christian dynamite he set off is still blasting away. The Worker's circulation now totals nearly 70,000. Nine other cities besides New York have Houses of Hospitality (one of them in London). Each is staffed by workers who have dedicated themselves to voluntary poverty, pacifism, and the "14 corporal and spiritual works of mercy."* Wrote Editor Day, 50, in the Catholic Worker's anniversary issue...
...offer a few excuses. Program directors have operated on the skimpiest of budgets (until recently as much as 80% of television's money and personnel was spent on the engineering end), and against exasperating odds: inadequate studio equipment, a Petrillo ban on live musicians (which ended only nine weeks ago), and Hollywood's cold shoulder. Under the circumstances, it is perhaps remarkable that TV has offered anything at all worth looking...