Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recent instances of semi-false fire alarms reached epidemic proportions yesterday, as an estimated nine Cambridge fire trucks and accompanying flame-fighters helped Martin L. Frank '47 start up his 1937 Ford in a parking lot near Leverett House...
Penn, with six wins in nine Ivy League starts, is currently third in league competition, and cannot afford to lose tonight if it hopes to give Columbia and Cornell a race for the title. The Varsity, by virtue of its upset triumph over the Lions, has moved into fourth place...
...Metropolitan Opera Company. Italian-born Gian-Carlo Menotti has done it twice in the past ten years. It has been an honor unaccompanied by noises of a cash register. Menotti's 1937 Amelia Goes to the Ball and his 1942 The Island God together got only nine Met performances (he was paid about $150 a time). In 1939 he wrote a modest little chamber opera for the radio, The Old Maid and the Thief, which has since been given 100 times and earned far more than his grand operas...
...Pass-Man," that prewar animal who was happy just to get by in his studies, has all but vanished from Oxford. Many veterans are taking speed-up Honors courses, cramming nine terms into five. Sighed one sad Old Oxonian: "The colleges seem to be declining from homes of learning to mere hives of students...
Married. The Hon. Felicity Anne. Wavell, 25, second daughter of Field Marshal Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India, and Captain Peter Maitland Longmore, 25; in a lavish Lenten ceremony attended by eight maharajas, nine members of the Interim Government; on the day of the announcement of Viscount Wavell's replacement by Viscount Mountbatten (see FOREIGN NEWS); in New Delhi...