Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, the Jayvee nine journeyed away to gain their second win over Newton Junior College, this time by a 5 to 0 count. Two pitchers shared in the Junior Varsity's first shut out this spring and its second victory in six starts. Landon, Clay went five innings, allowing six scattered hits and striking out seven. Barry Turner finished up, striking out five and aiding his cause with a run batted...
Best of the lot is the Leo Martin Memorial course in Auburndale, out near Wellesley. Once the private Riverside Club, its fairways and greens are in good shape and, for the most part, interesting to play. The first nine is short, and the holes near the clubhouse are rather flat, but the others present some challenge...
...made fascinating material for the Sunday-supplement writers. Evalyn Walsh McLean was dogged by disaster. She hired detectives to guard her first child, Vinson; she provided a scrubbed, perfumed Negro boy to "keep him from getting spoiled by wealth." But he was killed by an automobile when he was nine. Her marriage ended tragically. Hard-drinking Ned McLean's mind gave way-in a moment of wild humor he sent her a Latvian divorce summons done up in a Christmas box decorated with tiny reindeer and holly. He was committed to an insane asylum a little later, finally died...
...Elbow Grease. The key to whether the U.S. will reach these goals is productivity-the combination of labor efficiency and technological improvement. A startling example of what improvement in productivity means: national output in 1940 was 27 times larger than in 1850, though the labor force was only nine times greater and worked only 43 hours a week instead of 70. If such productivity continues its average rate of growth since 1850 (18% a decade), the U.S. will easily meet the estimated demands for 1950-60. If it grows at the rate which prevailed in. the last two decades...
Rowing with the tide on the Severn, a salt-water inlet, the Varsity sweep-swingers covered the distance in nine minutes flat. Coach Tom Bolles' worries about the Maryland weather went for naught as the day was judged a good one for racing...