Word: nine
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...from Jersey. The Republocrats in the House chose a Republican chairman: New Jersey's red-haired Representative Fred Hartley, a veteran of nine terms marked chiefly by his frequent absences from the floor. But 43-year-old Fred Hartley is also distinguished as an inveterate foe of the Office of Price Administration-and the coalition is more interested in batting down OPA controls than in anything else...
Yale's powerful squash team trounced the Crimson Varsity 8 to 1 Saturday on the victors,' home courts. Bob Rowe, playing number nine, emerged from the debacle with the only Crimson victory of the afternoon as the squad ended its first formal season since the beginning of the war on a sour note...
...offices. The day after he moved into office No. 4, another raid gutted the synagogue across the street. He flew 20 sorties with U.S. and British pilots, sailed the Channel on a minesweeper, lay in a London gutter to broadcast the sound of an air raid. This week, after nine years in England, Ed Murrow was off to the U.S. for good. But before he left, he spoke an eloquent "Farewell and Hail" over...
After some nine symbolical months of doubt and travail, all of Author Walworth's characters dramatically bring forth faith in God. The Reverend Job's faith returns when he goes back to work in the slums. Actor Nick Romney finds faith by repulsing Melita's fleshly charms and acting his clergyman's role to perfection. Laura is saved when Henry is struck down by a terrible sickness. Gladys learns the meaning of religion when she goes to Christmas service and "sees" her dead fiancé there, in battle dress...
Ever since Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins "de-emphasized" football in 1939, Chicago had been a member by courtesy only. But so long as Chicago still played basketball, track and tennis with the other nine, such potential Big Ten members as Notre Dame, Nebraska, Pittsburgh and Iowa State could not be included...