Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ford went to bed at nine in a cold bedroom. At 11:15 Clara Ford heard her husband's voice. She got him a drink of water. She roused the chauffeur and sent him off to the nearest telephone to call Dr. John Mateer of the Ford Hospital, which the old man had endowed. But before Dr. Mateer arrived a cerebral hemorrhage had done its work. In the cold, hushed room, Henry Ford, aged 83, had died by the light of old-fashioned kerosene lamps and flickering candles...
...tutorial picture in the department is fairly bright, compared with the desperate overcrowding in many of the other departments. Nine part-time tutors are available to the 223 concentrators, but, since full tutorial is offered only to third and fourth year honors candidates and a few deserving sophomores, each tutor actually devotes most of his tutorial to four or five honor students...
...Freshman nine, rained out of its last scheduled game with Governor Dummer, meets Boston Latin School, while the Jayvee nine, which lost its only previous start to the Yardlings, will attempt to get off on the right foot against Newton Junior College...
Coach Adolph Samborski's squad returns to Soldiers Field today for a 4 o'clock joust with the University of Connecticut, and will meet a traditionally powerful Holy Cross nine at Fitton Field, Worcester, at 2 o'clock tomorrow. Righthander Jack Wallace will start against the U-Conns, and Red Connolly will be thrown against his former colleagues at Worcester tomorrow...
...sure, there are bad moments. One dance that is meant to take place in a beauty parlor involves nine (not ten) young ladies costumed as fingernails performing a rather vapid series of body movements. But luckily the tempo is fast, and in a few minutes the girls are out there again doing a delightful waltz and jitterbug act. Then a few minutes more, and they're in a dazzling outdoor scene that has a spontaneity seldom seen in professional ice performances...