Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supervisor of mountaineer mining missions, and he has moved into Morgantown with two ordained assistants and a third on the way. Both owners and miners are so appreciative of Smith's work that they have asked the Presbyterian Board of National Missions to open nine more centers like the Shack...
...mile Indianapolis Memorial Day race is famed as a testing ground for new auto gadgets. But this race, the first since 1941, was mostly a contest between patched-up prewar jobs. Only nine of the 33 starters finished. The largest crowd ever to watch a U.S. sport event (175,000 people) saw shy George Robson, 36, in his third try at Indianapolis, cross the line first. He averaged 114 m.p.h. in his light blue, alcohol-burning Thorne Special. His reward: about $48,000 in prizes and a trip around the world...
...sweated out six carloads of logs, triumphantly sent them off to the paper mill. In return, the World got 40 tons of newsprint, enough to see it through the month. Its 68-year-old publisher hadn't had so much fun since he ran off with the circus nine years ago, to spend five days as a clown...
Honors at 16. Luckman is well aware of this. But he has always learned fast. Born in Kansas City, of a family with little spare cash, he started selling newspapers at nine, later jerked sodas, delivered groceries, clerked. This didn't prevent him from graduating, at 16, with top honors in a class of 2,000 from Northeast High School-or from being class president, yearbook editor, prom chairman, debating captain and a member of the track team. That he was voted most-likely-to-succeed was anticlimactic...
Then Dr. Slotin was taken to the hospital, where, nine days later, he died of the peculiar and imperfectly understood burns produced by radiation. Seven coworkers, less seriously injured, hoped to recover...