Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the Hudson, in The Bronx, another bartender named Alfred Lagan searched his twelve-year-old daughter's round eyes and read a $20,000 message which he decoded thus: "O.K., papa, it's yours for the family [of nine], to do what you think you should." Elsewhere in the U.S., some 200 citizens shook, stomped, cried or set 'em up with sudden violence...
Congress stipulated that the amendment must be acted on within seven years. Since approval of the Bill of Rights, ratification of amendments has usually taken about a year. The 16th (income tax) took three and a half years. But it took parched Americans only nine months to approve the 21st, repealing Prohibition...
Since no Crimson pitcher has had enough work as yet to be ready for a full nine-inning stint, Samborski will probably use two hurlers against Maryland. Bill Connolly and Jack Wallace. Both are right-handers...
Shooting his club-like fist unerringly, he downed Dowat early in the second for nine, and boring in inexorably, sent his game but bewildered adversary to the canvas with a streaming nose for another nine-count. Referee Tommy Rawson halted the bout...
Four years as an "almost good enough" oarsman at the University of Washington under Rusty Callow, now at Penn, were good enough training for Bolles to rate a Freshman coaching berth at his Alma Mater. Nine years as a Washington coach were also enough to convince College athletic officials that Bolles was the man and he was lured away to be Varsity mentor here in 1936. Since then, except for a three-year so journ in the Navy, he has reigned with a battered, grey felt crown on his head, at the Newell Boat House...