Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jack-of-many-deals, he operated in real estate, films, aircraft promotion. Twice in nine years he put himself through the bankruptcy wringer for a loss to his creditors of more than $600,000. Yet he had been able to worm himself into Government jobs that opened up new fields for his operations...
...when Rubens died in 1640, the business died with him. Nine years later his house was leased to an Englishman in exile who turned it into a riding stable. In 1672 Antwerp's Burgomaster tried to buy it for the town, but the price was too high and the palace remained private property until 1931, when Antwerp got royal permission to expropriate it. Since then, Antwerp's crack architects had thumbed 17th Century documents to rediscover the original plans, masons cut through walls in search of the original foundations, and 23 stonecarvers-using Renaissance techniques-worked seven years...
Luckman heard the "presentation record," was sold for a nine-week tryout. CBS gave the show the Monday night (8:309 p.m., E.D.S.T.) hot spot held in season by Joan Davis. Variety tabbed Senator "a show with tremendous promise." It looked as if Luckman had bought himself one of the summer replacements most likely to succeed...
...nine closes the season with an unimpressive record of three wins against the same number of losses. Harvard's bitterest pill to swallow this summer is the three pastings which the powerful Boston University Terriers presented to the tunes...
Preparing to launch its study of atomic energy, Associated Universities, Inc., the newly-formed group of nine eastern universities, has chosen Edward Reynolds '15, Vice-President of Harvard, as its first president, it was announced by Major General Leslie R. Groves, head of the Army's Manhattan Project for atomic development, last Friday...