Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week at Soldiers Field with three high-scoring baseball games. In a wide open contest last Tuesday which featured loose fielding and heavy hitting the Dunster softball team downed Lowell House 17 to 16. Yesterday a strong Winthrop softball team was shaded 10 to 9 by a steady Kirkland nine...
...hardball league a confident Lowell nine was clubbed 15 to 5 by Adams House. Two Gold Coast pitchers held the Lowell hitters to four singles while the Adams nine lashed one eleven hits including two triples...
...Beta Kappa Society normally holds two elections, each year, selecting men in the spring and at commencement. For the eight men of Junior rank chosen each year the requirements are nine A's out of 12 courses, while Seniors must make 11 A's out of their total of 16 courses...
...ours several times removed decided that there was nothing Ted Williams had that he didn't have but a 336 lifetime batting average. In a fervent burst of House patriotism, he cut his afternoon class and panted down to Soldiers Field to shag flies for the Adams House nine...
Conceived in Tears. "I am certain," said Charles Dickens Jr., "that the children of my father's brain were much more real to him at times than we were." Over his mental offspring, Dickens suffered all the joys and torments of family life. He wrote daily, rigorously, from nine in the morning until three in the afternoon. No Victorian reader of Dickens' works ever wept so copiously over them as Dickens himself. "I have had a good cry," he once wrote to Forster. "I am worn to death. I was obliged to lock myself in when I finished...