Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wholly untested and still largely nebulous after two sketchy weeks of practice, the Varsity nine present a mixed and not over-encouraging picture at this point. A lot of concentrated work will be necessary before the team can take the field against Kings Point on April 19, the first game of the season...
...military board which would have access to all the commission's information and could appeal to the President if anything the civilians did seemed "inimical to the common defense." They also tacked on an amendment by Connecticut's Senator Thomas Hart, adding an advisory board of nine part-time experts to the commission...
...Holiday!" snorted Winston Churchill as the Queen Mary brought him home from his nine weeks in the U.S. "It was as strenuous as a by-election." Furthermore, being a private person instead of a prime minister had made it "like fighting a battle in a shirt after being accustomed to a tank. . . . I've come home for a rest...
Patience & Fortitude. Polish Pianist Maryla (pronounced Mariela) Jonas should not have been such a surprise. She made her debut with the Warsaw Philharmonic at nine. Paderewski heard her play, gave her lessons. When Maryla's father objected to a music career for his daughter, Paderewski said quietly: Patience. It is possible that in five, six, seven years she will turn out to be mediocre...
...Spiegel's started buying up specialty shops geared to its five mailorder departments-women's wear, children's wear, men's clothing and sporting goods, home furnishing, hardware-farm-auto supplies. The firm laid out $5 million for 100 outlets in 1944, $3.2 million for nine others...