Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with one fellow so interesting that he lingers on, and thus misses appointments with two other fellows, he makes up for it later in the day. This is the only place I have been where a public official has given me an appointment to meet him in his office nine o'clock in the evening...
...dream of a troisième force (third force) which would hold the democratic bastions against Gaullism and Communism alike. In his request to the Assembly for a vote of confidence, Léon Blum antagonized the growing nucleus of De Gaulle adherents. He missed his majority by nine votes...
...comparative amounts the University holds in bonds, common stocks, and real estate have shifted somewhat since 1936. Thirty-three percent of the total is now invested in government bonds. The University held no government bonds at all in 1936. Holdings in common stocks have also increased from twenty-nine percent in 1936 to thirty-six percent in 1947. Sign of the times: this trend continued during 1946-47, when the University added $6 million to its common stock investments. Claflin attributes to "larger dividends from common stocks" the fact that in 1947 balances were more favorable than in 1946. Both...
...real estate and mortgage holdings decreased in the last ten years to less than two percent of the total at present, but this percentage is considerably lower than comparative figures for most of the major universities in the nation. The average amount invested in real estate by fifty-nine colleges and universities in 1946, including Harvard, was better than thirteen percent...
...chances to gain a seat in the House of Commons are ruined if she condones her nephew's marriage to a German. Publically she proclaims that all Germans are alike and thus voices the belief of most others as well. But privately she tells Frieda that in six months nine-tenths of the community would come to accept her but there would always be the other tenth...