Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, state governments were cautiously squeezing a little extra milk out of taxpayers. Since Jan. 1, 22 states had levied one or more new taxes, or had hiked up old ones. Faced with wage raises for public employees and increased operating costs, 15 states had passed cigaret tax laws; nine had raised taxes on liquor; four had started sales taxes. Taxpayers, long used to this kind of pasture milking, made no attempt to kick over the bucket. But there was a great deal of angry tail-switching...
According to Holt the task wasn't as formidable as it looked. With only nine different letters in the base words, the wear and tear on Webster was considerably reduced...
...family noticed that Jimmy did not go dancing as he once did, and no longer bounced around the house sparring and roughhousing. Instead he sat for hours reading books, and talked as though he would never again enter a ring. But after nearly nine months of retirement, he began to stir again. He told a friend: "I have to prove I wasn't hurt . . . that I'm a man." Manager Paul Doyle lined up a few bouts, and Jimmy breezed through the first five, against second-raters...
...Seattle, Coach Tom Bolles' crack Harvard, crew rowed the 2,000-meter Olympic distance in a record 5 min. 49 sec. In doing so, Harvard, which always passes up Poughkeepsie, defeated nine of the eleven crews which raced at Poughkeepsie a fortnight ago. Navy, the Poughkeepsie winner, did not show up at Seattle, but the Harvard crew had already beaten Navy this season, was thus apparently the crew of the year...
...drama department at Catholic University in Washington,D.C. is the best collegiate play factory since George Pierce Baker's late, great 47 Workshop at Harvard. It also has a broader backstairs to Broadway. In the last nine years, seven C.U.-produced plays (including Lute Song and Sing Out, Sweet Land) have opened in New York. Last week C.U. added a stairway to Hollywood...