Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in Shanghai, frightened and furious over persistent mob raids on their shops (nine in one day), some 300 rice merchants milled in front of City Hall. They shouted for protection. Mayor K. C. Wu refused it. They called for a gag on Little Happiness. Mayor Wu refused that. Someone cried: "Let's go to Heavenly Voice radio station and take care of Little Happiness ourselves!" Others echoed...
...last week nine months of slaughter, pillage, and arson had killed nearly 15,000* Indians (according to low Government estimates), had all but persuaded Britons and Congress leaders that Moslems and Hindus could not cooperate in a unified nation. Almost everybody but Gandhi now accepts the principle of Pakistan (a separate Moslem state or states). Even Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru has said: "The Moslem League can have Pakistan if they wish to have it." But he served notice that if India was going to split along communal lines, Congress would not let Jinnah have non-Moslem territories which he claims...
...years of agile living, Sicilian Monarchist Count Ernesto Perrier has fought nine duels-the last two with rival Monarchist Prince Gianfranco Alliata de Montereale. Not long ago Swordsman Perrier pinked Montereale over a disagreement about the Monarchist Party platform. Four months later they were at it again. Again Perrier won. This time there was no likelihood of another duel. The fact that dueling was against the law mattered little. It was simply too expensive...
...Deacon nine swept both ends of yesterday's twin bill, routing Leverett by a distinctive 23 to 2 margin and claiming the nightcap over Dunster by default. Bucky Harrison and Sam Bush shared the hurling duties, while Jerry Glynn contributed a home run to the cause. In the third game played, Stan Johnson pitched Adams House to its third victory in two days, using his curve ball effectively to set down Lowell...
Matt Davidson, who coaches the Nassau nine, will use either Wolcott or Joo Carpenter against Dolph Samborski's charges. At Princeton last Saturday, Wolcott turned in a three-hit shutout to stop Harvard 1 to 0, defeating Reilly, who limited the Orange and Black to five base hits and fanned 11 Tigers. Reilly is definitely slated to start for the Varsity...