Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extrovert Dartmouth nine brought-Brooklyn Dodger baseball to chilly Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon as the Varsity and the Indians split an Ivy League double-header. The visitors took the first game 5 to 1 without trouble, and the Crimson eked out a 6 to 5 decision in the hectic nightcap...
Coach Dolph Samborski's nine had taken three straight league triumphs before dropping two one-run games at Princeton Saturday, a catastrophe which unceremoniously dumped the Crimson from first to fourth place...
Last fall, Professor Pound carried nine hours of teaching on his weekly schedule. He grades all term papers and examinations himself, maintaining "I do not think it is fair to my students to have assistants do the work...
...house lights come up, and above the hubbub in the aisles one can hear a spectral voice pronounced in awe-filled tones, "The overture...Duel in the Sun..." And thus begins David O. Selznick's nine-million dollar horse opera. Of this pile of cash a very substantial share has been invested in what has been perhaps the most immense hoopla campaign since Thomas A. Edison invented the motion picture. Such an unparalelled barrage of publicity has been such a long stretch of time that quite a sizable fraction of the population already is intent upon seeing the picture...
Baseball teams from Harvard had a bad weekend as the Varsity at Princeton lost its batting eye and dropped 3 to 2 and 1 to 0 games to Pennsylvania and Princeton. At Soldiers Field the Yardling nine dropped a 5 to 3 decision to the Yale Freshmen, and the Jayvee team over whelmed their New Haven counterparts...