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Word: nine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Balky Ford Calls Out Band of Firefighters | 3/4/1947 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Quintet Opposes Quakers Tonight At Boston Garden | 3/4/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera in Small Packages | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oxford Without Sherry | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

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