Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with utter amazement that I read about the smoking of a big, black cigar at the opera by Mrs. Cleon Throckmorton. Mrs. Throckmorton is my sister. Mrs. Throckmorton and I have been going to the opera since we were little girls of eight and nine, when our father, the musical critic, Algernon St. John Brenon, took us to hear Parsifal...
...Angeles, police booked baldish Edward T. Calver, branch manager of the Keeley Institute (for alcoholics), on a charge of drunkenness. Released on bail, he explained what had driven him to the bottle-nine long years of trying to keep lushes away from whiskey...
Remaining from last year's team are regulars Jack Spencer and Murray Wier, the high-scoring forward who sparked the Hawkeyes to a Big Nine title in 1945. Wier has made 559 points i three seasons, topped by his performance last year when he hit for a 15.1 average...
Eddleman, starting halfback on the Orange and Blue's 1946 and 1947 football teams and the Big Nine's top punter, scored an amazing 969 points in one basketball season while leading Centralia High School to a state prep title...
Colorado College, known familiarly as the Bengals, is the only college in the Rockies to boast a hockey team, and although its rink competition is only nine years old, the mountaineers modestly call their schedule "one of the roughest in the united States." Frankly looking to the north for material, Colorado has a team roster of 17 that lists 12 Canadians, but their 1945-46 team won-and-lost record (against teams largely from Canada) shows a lean three victories, all against the same team, as opposed to eight losses...