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Word: nine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cool-headed Varsity played heads-up ball, retiring at the half on top of a 29 to 13 count. With Bruin forwards Jim Cooney and George Tyrrell catching fire and scoring nine points apiece after intermission, the visitors seemed sure of narrowing the margin until Crimson captain George Hauptfuhrer found the spree contagious and himself poured 14 points through the hoop before the finish...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Basketball Gains Momentum As Team Tops Brown 63-46 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...impression from the fact that last year, with a course of 600 students, I had the assistants refuse admission to those who appeared later than seven minutes after the hour. I assume, however, that even your writer would not regard this action as unreasonable in the case of a nine o'clock class. In any event, the action involved no possible violation of the fire regulations. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Denies History-5 Lockout | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Triumphing in eight out of nine matches, the varsity squash team made a success of its home debut as it scored an 8-1 victory ever the Dartmouth outfit in its first intercollegiate match Saturday afternoon at the Hemenway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Team Mashes Dartmouth in 8-1 Win | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...smoldering ember of the new U.S. foreign policy was fanned into brisk flame last week. New York's roaring Representative John Taber discovered-after others had pointed it out to him-that the U.S. had shipped $113 million worth of exports to unfriendly Russia in the first nine months of 1947. Cried he: "A constant and deliberate violation of the law. . . . We are providing with our own funds the things with which Russia can destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Calculated Risk | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

When he was sent to prison for mail fraud last June, Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley told the judge that he had at least nine serious ailments (gall bladder disease, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, hypertension, etc.). "You are sentencing me," he said brokenly, "to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Hail to the Chief | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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