Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nine girls in the senior class at Royal Oak (Mich.) High School went through graduation ceremonies last week, but they didn't graduate. They got blank diplomas instead. It was Principal Miles W. Marks's way of punishing them for belonging to high-school sororities, illegal in Michigan...
...Zaharias. "She must be Superman's sister," one spectator whispered after the Babe whacked a whistling drive down the fairway last week in the British women's amateur golf championship at Gullane, Scotland. The Babe nearly always outdrove her opponents by 50 to 100 yards. On one nine, she came in two under men's par. Between rounds she entertained galleryites with trick shots and her impressions of the highland fling...
...Tucker in Red. In the nine months that he had been in the Chicago plant, Tucker had displayed remarkable ability to get Government help. His car-making consisted in building one handmade Tucker (see cut) painted a fiery "Tucker red." WAA had leased the plant to Tucker after turning down an offer of $12 million from the Consolidated Grocers Corp. It also contracted to pay Tucker some $75,000 a month to pay a staff to look after the $100 million worth of Government tools and surplus equipment in the plant. In return, Tucker promised...
Varsity crew and baseball teams have still to reach a season climax, with the nine scheduled to meet Yale again tomorrow at New Haven, and the Varsity eight ready to row it our--over a four-mile course--with the Elis on the Thames Wednesday. The 150-pound Varsity boat has already finished its second straight year undefeated...
Director Bill Bingham and his assistants have organized a full program of sports which includes intramural softball and baseball, tennis, rowing, volley ball, and swimming. In addition, depending on the demand, an informal "all-star" nine will be hand-picked by intramural director Dolph Samborski from the various House teams. This squad will take on whatever local collegiate competition is available...