Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state they call me the big, dumb Swede!" quipped lumbering Ed Johnson. His colleagues in the Senate were not much surprised to hear this; they had known Colorado's Big Ed for nine years. Nevertheless, they suffered him to delay passage of the $3.75 billion British loan for two hours while he groped around in parliamentary irrelevancies...
...told to look for "a very faint tingling in [his] warts. . . . That is a sign that they will soon disappear." The child takes the chart home, daily compares the real warts with those on the sketch, notes their shrinkage. Treatment is not confined to the hands. For the nine-year-old daughter of a skeptical dermatologist, Dr. Vollmer was able to charm away a faceful of warts in six weeks...
...hander Joe Phelan held the huskies to two runs in the first seven innings and even doubled to drive in one of the Stahlmen's two tallies, stealing home to tie the score, but he was unable to halt an eighth inning relay that cost the game. The Varsity nine will be seeking its fifth win after losing five for the season when it faces Dartmouth at Hanover this afternoon...
...Annapolis hosts registered another surprise when they finished second, a length behind, in a nine-way regatta that saw the dope rudely upset. Crimson rowers, who, with Cornell, were pre-race favorites, came in last, while the Big Red crossed the finish line in fifth place...
...been nine years since Maria Jeritza had sung before a New York audience, but all the old magic was still there. The 3,000 who jampacked Carnegie Hall cheered as they never had before - and many of them had bravoed many an earlier Jeritza performance. As much as anything else, the audience applauded the 58-year-old soprano's apparently in destructible beauty. In a silver-spangled white dress flown East by Hollywood's Adrian, the golden-haired diva looked like the late Jean Harlow in her prime. And when she sang her program of high-powered arias...