Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really encouraging note is that Dick hasn't been heard complaining about his material. Facing the second nine-game schedule in his career here (the only other was in 1942), he hopes he gets a chance to develop his team, polish it into working shape before too stiff competition comes along. Connecticut, opponent number one, has Walt Trojanowski, who scored 22 touchdowns last year, on its side; and Tufts and Princeton, second and third on the card, are both rated strongly in the East...
Some of Tomorrow's numerous alumni complain that an editor must be psychic himself to work for a psychic boss. Serenely stroking her nine gold bracelets, thrice-married Eileen Garrett says sweetly: "I've never had anything but a neurotic editor until this very moment. You know," she adds with a glitter, "the number of phonies you meet in this town...
...pieces, burn holes in any blanket, melt locks (throw away your keys), remove superfluous hair (no smelly, sticky wax or paste!), and call police cars on short wave (if the police don't call you first!). It may even write, for all we know! . . . And you have only nine more years to wait...
...Commission's quandary revived the old debate over the value of luxury liners -and whether its plans to build nine such liners made any sense. It has already postponed bids to build four such ships because of the shortage of materials. And it still has on its hands the biggest white elephant of all-the Normandie. Even in her heyday she lost money. Last week the Commission asked for bids to cut her up for scrap, feared that no one would buy her. A West Coast oil company suggested that she be used for bulk storage...
...Test Baker (the underwater bomb) the score was higher. Two hundred white rats and 20 pigs were confined in the sick bays of four ships near the bomb. All were well sheltered, and none of their ships was sunk. But 77 rats were dead soon after the blast. Forty-nine died later of lingering radiation sickness. Of the 20 little pigs that went to Test Baker, no little pig came home. Six were found dead when their shelters were entered four days after the explosion. All the rest died in two weeks...