Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress. On the evening of the fifth day, after a final session lasting nine hours and 40 minutes, a dog-tired Alben Barkley called in the press to announce a complex compromise agreeable to eleven of the 14 conferees. A three-man Decontrol Board, appointed by the President with Senate approval, would exercise top authority over prices. OPA, although extended until June 30, 1947, would be outranked by the Board. Major proposals...
Sparked by the return of Vince Moravec' to the mound and by Charlie Sensucy's three-run homer in the fifth, the Varsity nine bounced back from their recent humbling by Boston University and nosed out the Squantum Naval Air Base team 5 to 4 Wednesday at Soldiers Field...
Adding insult to injury, the Boston University Terriers lambasted the Varsity nine for the second time to the tune of 16 to 4 last Friday at Nickerson Field...
Last week Dr. Read had found a disciple in the U.S. A New Jersey doctor, Blackwell Sawyer of Lakewood, announced (in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology) that he had tried Dr. Read's approach on 168 patients, with success in nine out of ten cases. Comments of mothers: "the happiest moment of my life," "it did not amount to anything...
...like to write. It is perhaps also generally assumed that after a little practice they find writing easy. The fact is that most writers find their work desperately difficult, no matter how long they have been at it, and regard the whole literary process as one part pleasure and nine parts drudgery...