Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Left, by Hollywood Director Ernst Lubitsch, to his nine-year-old daughter, Nicola: the bulk of his estate, worth an estimated $1,000,000. To his divorced wife, Nicola's mother: 15% of the estate...
...Alice Wynekoop, Chicago physician who gained tabloid fame in 1933 by murdering her daughter-in-law on the Wynekoop basement operating table, went free on parole after serving 13 years and nine months of her 25-year term...
...radio's big news of 1947 was television. Television grew-and behaved-as outlandishly as an adolescent boy. More than 149,000 sets were sold; nine new telecasting stations were operating. But programs (except for sportscasts, a television natural) were mostly pretty, clumsy; and the first advertising binge had left the youngster with a bad commercial breath...
...specimens available for studying a single species of wasp. As professor of zoology at Indiana University, he found no similar bank of scientific data to help answer his students' questions about the sexual behavior of human beings; the most detailed study of sex histories covered only 300 individuals. Nine years ago Kinsey, doctor of science (Harvard) and author of half a dozen textbooks (e.g., New Introduction to Biology) set out to even the scientific score...
...drop-forge worker is a peculiar sort of Joe. ... He makes forgings, eight, nine or ten hours a shift. After work he makes them in the tavern, he makes them at the dinner table, in fact, he makes them wherever and whenever he can get anyone to listen-and he always makes them better than the other...