Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inevitable that tutorial, a most tiring and time consuming from of instruction, most suffer o some extent as way" the Committee reported, referring to the depleted staff, the three torn year, and the present "tremendous" influx of students. It was prided out, however, that extensive tutorial restriction in nine departments are "presumably not necessitated by the present emergency...
Until he took N.M.U.'s helm nine years ago, tattooed Joe Curran was an ordinary seaman with a more-than-ordinarily militant resentment of slim pay, mealy food and crummy quarters aboard U.S. ships. When disgruntled East Coast sailors cast off from the corrupt and ineffective A. F. of L. International Seamen's Union and went C.I.O., they made big Joe Curran top seadog in their aggressive new union. N.M.U. rank & filers had long had a noticeable list to port: some belonged to dockside cells of the Communist Party. No one lifted an eyebrow when a bunch...
Last week Myers, who had shared office with Curran for nine years, announced that he would not run again in next month's N.M.U. elections. Owing to an oversight, said Blackie sleekly, his dues had been paid late and he feared that "this technicality could be used ... to disrupt and harm the union." But Curran, McKenzie and Smith were still on the ticket...
...turned down the Yankees because the competition would be too stiff and he might wind up on the farm team in Newark; he rejected the Dodgers (who offered the most money) because he didn't think he'd like Brooklyn; a Card scout wrote him a nine-page letter, but he thought the Cardinals were too penny-pinching. Finally he took a $27,500 bonus for joining the Reds. If Hoss doesn't play third base this year, General Manager Warren Giles says he will have to fire five scouts...
Reluctant Unbeliever. Instructed in Catholicism as a child, Madrid-born George Santayana came to Boston to live with his mother's New England in-laws in 187 at the age of nine, studied and taught at Harvard until 1912. He then left the rude U.S. to spend the rest of his life in the nostalgic atmosphere of Europe-first in Oxford and Paris, then at last in Rome...