Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will come when Boreas will be in brash and brazen bluster. Against that day, we would commend to all lectures who occupy the nine-to-ten hour a thawing out period for fingers with small warmth of coursing blood in them...
Free but Not Easy. City College was the first tuition-free, city-owned U.S. college (nine cities now own colleges), and was started, according to its first president, West Pointer Horace Webster, as an "experiment [in] whether the highest education can be given to the masses...
Atomic energy brought the social scientist face to face with the natural scientist as guests of the University over the weekend, with 109 savants primarily from the Boston area, gathering to tussle with the problem of government control. One tangible outcome was the appointment of a permanent committee of nine as continue the investigation...
...nine Soviet astronomers now visiting the University observatory were included in the mailing list of invitations. An official of the conference noted that the Russians expressed their appreciation but nevertheless declined. Relations with Russia as pertaining to the atomic energy question, however, were still discussed...
Merle Fainsed, chairman of the Government Department, was elected to bead the permanent nine-man committee. Other members of the faculty chosen as members were Seymour E. Harris '20. associate professor of Economics, Donald C. NcKay, chairman of the committee on Regional Studies, and Talcott Parsons, chairman of the Department of Social Relations...