Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...christening ceremony and the photographers' floodlights had been a little too much last December for Prince Charles of Edinburgh. He had howled loud and long. But he was older now, all of nine months. Last week, without the moral support of the presence of his mother, Princess Elizabeth, he stood up well under the ordeal of his first boughten haircut at Birkhall, near Balmoral, Scotland, where the royal family is vacationing. His golden locks were trimmed enough to give him "a young gentleman's appearance" by Felix West, of Trumper's, London, who also cuts the hair...
...nine new Georgian-style buildings would be modern enough, with ample room to house a giant refectory and 750 students, including Brown's 17 fraternities. But a 10-ft. dry moat would surround them all, and a bristling 6-ft. iron stockade would surround that. There would be three entrances to the quad, each with a guardhouse manned by campus police. Underground, a network of passageways would allow students to go to dinner without getting drenched in wet weather...
This summer, Professor Jepsen went back to Wyoming with a nine-man task force which enthusiastically tore into the site with little awls and whisk brooms. Just below the surface they found a mass of man-mangled buffalo bones with the ends broken off (a handy way to get at the marrow). With the bones were arrowheads and spearheads made by ancient nomads whom diggers call Yuma...
...last day, as amazed as anybody at their success, two dark horses met as finalists. Rufus King and Charlie Coe had grown up nine miles from each other across the Texas-Oklahoma line, but were playing golf together for the first time...
...when he was Papal Secretary of State, Pius XII became interested in the ancient tombs uncovered by Vatican workers burrowing below ground to check on the foundations supporting St. Peter's dome. When he became Pope, he gave orders for further investigations. For the past nine years, delicate digging has been under way beneath the great basilica. An official account of these secret labors is reported to be in preparation, perhaps to be made public at the beginning of the Holy Year of 1950. Delicate Matter. Last week the New York Times front-paged a long dispatch from...