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Word: nine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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British scientists found last year that IPC killed certain grain plants. U.S. scientists took the hint and tried the stuff on quackgrass, alias witchgrass, one of the peskiest weeds in the northern U.S. As little as 10 lbs. an acre, Agriculture reports, does the deed, killing even the nine-lived underground stems (stolons) which generations of farmers have grubbed from the soil by hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Grass Killer | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Intramural baseball officially dons its summer clothing today when the Kirkland Deacons meet an Adams-Dunster nine at 3 o'clock on the Freshman diamond at Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intramural Baseball Begins Today As Deacons, Adams-Dunster Clash | 6/27/1947 | See Source »

...those Houses or Halls which cannot recruit a full nine, Samborski suggested that they follow the example of the Adams-Dunster merger. The Deacons, also, are composed of members of Winthrop besides residents of their title House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intramural Baseball Begins Today As Deacons, Adams-Dunster Clash | 6/27/1947 | See Source »

Bingham that the pitched was unaware that he was violating Ivy eligibility rules when he performed for the Keene, N. H. nine. At that time, Connolly was enrolled at Holy Cross, which, along with 21 other New England schools, permits its athletes to play in the Northern League, a semi-professional organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Connolly Readmitted to Ivy League Baseball Following Disqualification As Varsity Squad Loses 7 Regulars | 6/24/1947 | See Source »

...neighboring manor house, the 1,200-year-old parish church that still bore, on the sundial over its porch, the Saxon inscription: THIS IS DÆGES SOL MERCA ÆT ILCVMTIDE (This is the day's sun mark at every tide). And when Read was nine years old, a glass jar filled with "black, blind and sinister leeches" was carried upstairs to his dying father's bedroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man of Two Worlds | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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