Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes reached 85 in Manhattan in good shape, spent the day quietly with his three children, nine grandchildren...
Babe Ruth, who spent most of the winter in a Manhattan hospital after a neck operation, flew to Florida for two weeks in the sun, played nine holes of golf in 45, and caught a 50-lb. sailfish. He was back in baseball at 52-as "consultant" to the boys' baseball program that Ford Motor Co. runs with the American Legion. Besides his salary (undisclosed), the onetime home-run king gets a shiny new Lincoln...
Slightly slower but more comfortable than the flashy Connie, the DC-6 will carry as many as 56 passengers at a cruising speed of 300 m.p.h., make transcontinental runs in nine to ten hours (cost: $685.000, plus radio). But what Patterson and all airline men fervently hoped was that it would win back the friends the airlines had lost...
Holy Cross took an early lead with single runs in the second and third innings, but the Varsity enjoyed two big innings--tallying four in the fourth and three more in the fifth--and led the Worcester nine, 7 to 4, until the final frame. Connolly had given up only three hits in eight innings, but seven walks and three Crimson errors gave Holy Cross its four runs...
Johnny Hansen had himself a field day Saturday as he led the Freshman nine to a 24 to 0 triumph over Boston Latin School. Limiting the visitors to a single hit and walking only three men, he also pounded out four hits in six trips to the plate...