Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commenting on the probable state of 150-pound rowing next spring, Haines said that he would have to find a new stroke and a new number four oar for his Varsity boat, but he expects about nine crews to come out in the fall, so he will have plenty to choose from...
...Gerald Kersh's characters said: "I have the report of the Montana crash. Ted Oxen took off alone in a certain jet-propelled plane. . . . Out of the scorched and twisted wreckage the authorities picked certain remains of a human being. This human being must have been a child nine or ten years old, according to the analysis...
...81st. At the age of three he won the grand prize at Chicago's International Livestock Exposition in 1936. Deep-bodied, square-rumped, the Hereford champion was sold to Cattleman Roy J. Turner, now Oklahoma's Governor. The price was small, only $18,500 for Rupert and nine other bulls. Rupert was withdrawn from the show ring, as Turner thought he would do better on his 10,000-acre breeding ranch in the heart of Oklahoma's "Hereford Heaven...
Rupert worked so diligently at his trade that soon Hereford men referred to him respectfully as "Old 81st." In nine years his progeny on the Turner ranch alone totaled 497. Of these, Turner sold 118 cows at an average price of around $1,200, 160 bulls at an average of around $2,100, the lot for a whopping total of $486,225. The only one who ever shamed his father was T. Royal Rupert 60th. He sold for a record-breaking $38,000 (TIME, Jan. 24, 1944). Then Turner had to give the money back when T. Royal turned...
...eclogues of Theocritus and Virgil, shepherds met in bucolic settings and conversed in polished verses. In Auden's eclogue, three men and a woman fall into a wartime conversation-in nine-syllable lines-in a Manhattan bar. They are: Quant, a sardonic shipping clerk; Malin, a medical intelligence officer in the Canadian Air Force; Rosetta, a department store buyer; Emble, a good-looking young naval officer. It is All Souls' Night...