Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, at New Haven, the Lowell quintet will try to emulate the recent Crimson Varsity performance against the Elis, when they tackle the champion Branford College five. Paul Haskell, Walt Coulson, Dana Bresnahan, Mike Post, and high-scorer Fred Donahoe will carry a nine game Lowell winning streak into the fray...
...nine months as chairman, leathery Jim Landis, 47, had done a great deal to change CAB's thinking, speed up its machinery. A law student and then a law professor at Harvard, he went to Washington in the early days of the New Deal as one of Felix Frankfurter's "Happy Hotdogs." Brain-Truster Landis helped write the Securities Act of 1933, became SEC chairman in 1935, then dean of Harvard's law school. But Landis was soon back in Washington, where he ran the Office of Civilian Defense...
...Saint Michel and Chartres, and the several collections of Adams' witty, cranky, sardonic letters (TIME, Jan. 20). But the History of the United States during the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison has been left almost wholly to the professionals-for the simple and ample reason that it is nine volumes long...
Pulitzer Prize Historian Herbert Agar (The People's Choice) has condensed its nine volumes into two, largely by jettisoning Adams' footnotes and masses of documentary matter. The product is still far from pint-sized: it runs to some 400,000 words, or twice the size of The Education. But at last the general reader may have in reasonably compact form what is acknowledged to be : 1) the standard text in its field, 2) one of the most brilliant of all U.S. histories...
With their best playmaker and set shot out of action, the Crimson failed to produce a point for almost nine minutes, and the Bulldogs scored 10 points, paced by football heroes Art Fitzgerald and Ferd Nadherny, to take a 37 to 32 lead...