Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thudwunk is shaped like two crossed chopsticks and apparently carries no pilot. Most of the time it spins like a windmill in a breeze, but every few minutes or so it pauses to reshape itself into two chopsticks in motion and tosses noodles from an altitude of eight or nine hundred feet. That, of course, is the really puzzling thing about the Flying Thudwunk-where does it get the noodles? Up until the time that it pauses and reshapes itself no noodles are visible at all. In fact, they aren't ever visible until they hit the Thudwunk-gazer...
...Molotov Plan. Nine nations-the U.S.S.R., Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland and Albania-had declined invitations to the conference. It was a hard decision for the trade-hungry Czechs; their Communist Premier Klement Gottwald had flown to Moscow, telephoned to the Cabinet at Prague the night the decision was made. "What else could we do?" said a non-Communist official in Prague. For being good, the Czechs got another Russian treaty and a promise of 200,000 tons of wheat...
Besides witches, whirligigs and a nine-foot Totem of Religion made out of three old railroad ties, the show included some 125 paintings, photographs and wall splotches by Surrealists and fellow travelers of 19 nations, including the top ones: Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Man Ray. Many admirers of early Surrealism (such as Communist Louis Aragon) felt that the daft old horse had lost its kick. Notably absent: Giorgio de Chirico, now a noisy detractor of the movement, and Salvador Dali, unfrocked by orthodox Surrealists for being too frivolous and too commercial...
With the addition of the two service clubs and the Bruins, the home-and-home series will be abandoned and each team will meet its nine opponents once during the campaign...
Walt Coulson, hard-hitting outfielder for the Varsity nine, pounded out two home runs in 12 Eastern Intercollegiate League games this past spring and hit for a total of 24 bases to win both the home run and slugging crowns, according to figures released recently by the Eastern College Athletic Conferences...