Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Determined Girl. She was already devoted to ice skating by the time she was nine, and gave up going to school. For 2½ hours each morning she was tutored by Miss Seeley, who later also tutored the grandchildren of Princess Alice and the Governor General. As a French student, Barbara Ann was embarrassed by "masculine" and "feminine" for genders, and substituted "boy" and "girl...
Marseille, a city of small buildings (the largest is nine stories) had never seen anything just like it. Neither had any other town. Under construction last week was a glassy 17-story apartment house, perched lightly on stilts, to stand in the middle of an eight-acre park (traffic will move freely underneath it). To get this modernity built, France's Ministry of Reconstruction had set aside $3 million and lifted all rationing on concrete and steel...
Divorced. Tyrone Power, 34, cinemactor, ex-member of the Lana Turner set; by Annabella (real name: Ann Carpentier), 35, French-born cinemactress; after almost nine years of marriage, 17 months of separation, no children; in Los Angeles...
Lyons branched out in 1912 with its first Corner House near Piccadilly Circus, biggest restaurant in the world, where 4,500 could eat at once on the nine floors. This mass-market feeding was immensely aided by Chairman Isidore Salmon's penchant for bad puns and good publicity. Every Briton who read a paper became familiar with Sir Isidore's brainchild George, who was always "gone to Lyonch...
...months and nine games later nothing was left but disenchantment, or disillusionment, or whatever you choose to call it. And a few feeble cries of "wait till next year...