Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time the nation was at war he was executive assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District, New York. Most notable prosecutions: the first U.S. wartime sedition case (the "Black Hitler" case) in which five were sent to prison; the first wartime spy case-a New York City ring of nine German-Americans who were sentenced to a total of 132 years in prison. Later, Lawyer Sonnett went into the Navy as a lieutenant commander, spent ten months investigating the Pearl Harbor attack for Navy Secretary James Forrestal. Last week, red-eyed from sleeplessness, he was determined i) to leave John...
Yardling mermen are scheduled to compete in the House swimming league, according to Adolf Samborski '25, director of the intramural athletic program. The addition of the Yardlings to the House League brings the league membership to nine and will feature three triangular meets instead of the two three way and one dual met originally scheduled...
...last year's first Strangers has returned to Coach John F. McCarthy, who has directed the Tech quintet since 1929, but McCarthy expects a better showing form his current outfit than the six victories and nine defeats which marked the 1945-46 M.I.T. campaign...
Efrem Kurtz was born in Russia, but after Pullman-jumping back & forth across the U.S. for nine years, as musical director of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, he is accustomed to U.S. audiences. He believes in educating his listeners gradually. Says he: ''I exposed them, step by step, to better music than Strauss waltzes and Tchaikovsky. So we have gone from Victor Herbert to Aaron Copland, from Rachmaninoff to Shostakovich." He is one of the most relaxed conductors in the business, but believes that the waving of his long spidery arms helps both the orchestra and audience...
Brothels, Boorishness. "Lyovochka the bubble," as he became known to his three elder brothers, took life with gusto from the start. He loved pillow fights and, at the age of nine, a pretty little house guest whom he pushed downstairs because she gave him too little attention. He was ugly, and in his teens dismayed society by not only looking but behaving like a troglodyte, as Turgenev called him. Neither dressing like a fop nor training on horizontal bars brought the shy Count success with fashionable ladies. He took refuge in boorishness and brothels...