Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crowds of Yardlings seeking their meals at the Union in the half-hour from 6 to 6:30 o'clock extended lines at last night's dinner well beyond the nine-minute maximum set earlier this year by William C. Bradford, secretary of the Union. Unionites claimed the lengthened lines resulted from the check-off system...
Smoking, Imbibing of the pleasures barred by conventional training rules, and a year without Coach Ulen's fond tutelage proved too much for a nine-man Alumni swimming squad as they bowed Saturday night to a sleek Varsity outfit...
...receptions with high good humor and grace. At India House, he shook hands with the Dowager Marchioness of Willingdon, whose husband had jailed him; at Buckingham Palace, he ate from His Majesty's gold plate, a delightful change from the tin service he had known as a nine-year guest in H. M.'s prisons. Jinnah was socially crusty, giving the impression of a man deeply aggrieved. When the travelers got down to cases, however, it was the smiling Nehru who proved most stubborn...
...editors voted noisily for the local man they were plugging, then filled in the rest with names they had heard of-even if they hadn't seen them in action (the New York Daily News named a guard as an All-America tackle). Grantland Rice had personally seen nine of the dozen he picked. His list relied largely on his board of sports editors. Since the editors also voted in the wire association polls, his choices were fairly representative. The Rice line...
...Everett Moore Baker, pink-faced and prematurely white-haired at 45, has been minister of Cleveland's First Unitarian Church (with the denomination's third largest membership) since 1942. Really a New Englander, he was born in Massachusetts, where he was a preacher for nine years. Until he took the Cleveland pulpit, he was vice president of the American Unitarian Association, head of its publications and of a Boston radio program...