Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eight score and nine years rolled gently over the gently rolling battlefield of Princeton. By chance, it was little built upon. This week, while the sweet gums turned as scarlet as the British soldiers' coats, the long-peaceful soil was dedicated as a state park. Said Princeton's President Harold Willis Dodds: the University was "succumbing to nostalgia" in its bicentennial year. On the preserved battlefield, any lover of human liberties could look back with pride...
...After nine days and 42 witnesses, the case went last week to the twelve-man jury, which needed only an hour and 52 minutes to decide that the Crown's story was the correct one. The verdict : "Guilty." Ontario Supreme Court Justice F. H. Barlow pronounced sentence: ". . . solitary confinement until the seventh day of January, when you shall be taken to the place of execution and there hanged by the neck until dead." (A woman has not been hanged in Canada in eleven years. But four women were under sentence of death in the Dominion last week.) The trial...
Last week Rembrandt's original subject was beginning to shine through again. The Rijksmuseum's restorers had been hard at work for nine months, washing away the grime and varnish, layer by layer, freeing the cool blues, greens and purples, the long-hidden faces. It would take another three months to bring full dawn...
...shoo out paying customers who dared talk above the music. Levin listened for six hours, went completely overboard, and started a one-man Mooney campaign. He coaxed musicians, bandleaders and managers into making the trip to Paterson to hear "the most exciting musical unit in the U.S. today," devoted nine columns to Mooney in Down Beat, started his fellow editors worrying that their trade paper had gone goofy about an accordion quartet. Last week they had stopped worrying...
...oldest were the biggest. From the lowest level came massive teeth and jaw bones which must have belonged to monstrous manlike creatures eight to nine feet tall and weighing 600 to 700 pounds. They were four times as big as modern...