Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Precisely at nine o'clock every morning a trim but stooped figure enters the Wigglesworth Gate and proceeds towards the west end of the Yard. Now and then the stroller stops to examine a shrub or gaze speculatively at one of the old buildings, and passers-by can detect bits of conversation that pass between the stroller and some invisible colleague. Indeed, at certain points, the figure seems to stop and engage in lengthy discourse with himself, ending abruptly with a nod of decision and a hurried resumption of his path toward Lehman Hall. The early morning boulevardier is Aldrich...
With an eye to avenging their earlier 12 to 6 defeat at the hands of Boston. University this summer, the Varsity nine will trot on the Nickerson Field green sward at 3 o'clock this afternoon...
...first side of the other record is even more obviously conceived in the Mickey Mouse style. Red Norvo and some of his former sidemen of the Brunswick days found the kaleidoscopic score so complicated that they had to cut it nine times and even then the finished product sounded like nothing so much as St. Vitus's dance set to music...
Coming from behind in the closing stages of a see-saw contest, the Crimson nine nosed out the Bowdoin Polar Bears 6 to 5 last Saturday at Soldiers Field to give Harvard as record of two wins and one less for the summer...
With both houses fielding a complete nine-man ball team apiece, Winthrop, yesterday afternoon, pitched and hit its way to a 10 to 7 victory over Leverett. Thus the Puritans chalked up their first win after playing two scheduled games. They lost to Dudley Friday...