Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's majestic liner Queen Mary had been the sleekest ornament in the luxury passenger service seemed almost like another age. For all the long war years the Mary's career had been grim and dedicated. But last week her widow's weeds were gone. After nine months of beauty treatments in drydock, she shone bridelike again as she glided away from a Southampton pier to take a two-day trial...
Except for Leonard J. Winchester of New Haven, a Yale student, and Fred Beckey of Seattle, the other members of the nine-man party were all members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club...
...Nine hundred civilian Freshmen will make up the autumn contingent of the class of '51, he disclosed. "With about three and a half candidates competing for every vacancy, the selection was a good bit tougher than usual," Gummere declared...
...Wave. In a few months, under the heavy buying of the British and Irish, wholesale prices at public auctions in the Far East soared as much as 200%. U.S. companies held off, confident that their nine months' supply on hand would see them through the flurry. But prices stayed up and U.S. supplies shrank. U.S. companies had to start buying again...
...Gilbert Winant Jr., 25, handsome, taciturn elder son of the one-time U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, for 19 months a P.W. in Germany (after his B-17 was shot down over Münster); and Janine Perret, 24, a Swiss girl he met nine years ago; in Geneva...