Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Herbert L. Spencer, president since 1945, had seen the university double in size, guided it through its centenary, launched a drive intended to bring the $2,000,000 endowment to $10,000,000 and add nine handsome new buildings to the campus. Last March, however, he resigned his post to head the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in New York, and the trustees had been combing a list of men to succeed...
Whatever his background, a youngster entering the Republic earns his own livelihood, pays for his board & keep in one of the nine cottage-type dormitories in the Republic's own currency (redeemable at about 50? on the dollar). Jobs range from ditchdigging and housekeeping to plumbing, carpentry, masonry, welding, and office chores. Average income of a Republic citizen is about 15 Republican dollars a week, of which living expenses take about ten. Chief drains on the remainder: Republican income taxes, to pay salaries and expenses of junior government officials; clothing and travel; savings...
...Cheyenne, Wyo., the "Ghost Patrol," which in bedraggled skull & crossbones regalia had been terrorizing the community, was unmasked as nine pint-sized hoodlums (aged nine to 14). In court they told Judge Walter Phelan that their juvenile reign of terror had been inspired by ABC's radio program the Green Hornet. The judge recommended spankings for each culprit and ordered a 5:30 curfew, with radios off while the Green Hornet...
...anti-evolution statutes in some of the American states, or Nazi attacks on the 'Jewish' relativity theory, or the Kremlin's telling the astronomers what cosmogony is good for them and what is bad, the demoralization of the spirit is dangerous." Although he believes that nine-tenths of the Russian scientists are "aware of the social mistake," they can do nothing about it: "The Soviet version of the moment is the worst, because the affliction is nationwide. I wish I had some assurance the malady were transitory...We cannot condone the Soviet infringement," he concluded, but "perhaps...
...teamed up with Lloyd Easterling, an office supplies dealer, and they began making Boot-sters as a sideline. Soon it became their main line. From $75,000 in the first nine months, sales streaked to $250,000 last year. Now Boot-ster has added plastic cowboy cuffs, lariats and spurs, expects to gross $1,000,000 this year...