Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Journal's strong words were not the first. Two hundred and forty-nine years ago, in a broadside entitled A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, an eminent churchman, the Rev. Jeremy Collier inveighed against the hero of Love for Love: "He is a prodigal debauchee, unnatural, and profane, obscene, saucy, and undutiful; and yet this libertine is crowned for the man of merit, has his wishes thrown into his lap. . . ." Congreve replied nervously, and not altogether convincingly, that he was doing a useful social work in painting "the vices and follies of human...
Connie Mack didn't try to kid the fans. He began the season with his usual prediction : his Athletics would finish last in the American League. After all, they had spent nine of the past 12 years in the cellar...
...school's expenses. He bought more land, overlooking a large lake, built ten "cottages" on his campus, furnished them with rugs, books, and pictures. When his school expanded to 150 pupils, he took over five more houses, dotted over the rolling farmland beyond his campus. He hired nine teachers to instruct the boys...
...Exactly nine days after President Truman asked them to "wait and see" before raising their prices, steelmakers got tired of waiting. The American Rolling Mill Co. was the first to act; it boosted its prices as much as $7 a ton. Next day Republic Steel Corp., third largest U.S. producer, boosted its prices $5 to $8. The same day, National Steel Corp. raised prices an average of $5.25 a ton. The following day, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. joined the move with raises of $6 to $7 a ton. The raises, on the whole, were much larger than anyone had expected...
...impudently perching, Stabler gibed: "Get yourself a compass, a divining rod, walk backward through a dark alley at three minutes after midnight and everything will be made clear. The first of them who comes out honestly and admits that the hocus-pocus of the Dow theory made him miss nine weeks of the bull market will deserve a seat on the Stock Exchange, upholstered in bearskin...