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Word: nine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combine of Genoese financiers forked over 100 million lire down-payment for a nine-year gambling concession, agreed to build a casino and put up a 100-room hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAN MARINO: Bolshevism In Yellow Gloves | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...week's end the Assembly won the ministers' approval of a nine-point agenda (six points more than the ministers first proposed), including "human rights & fundamental freedoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPEAN UNION: More than Monogamy | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...Lohman, a Paraguayan who used to cook at a Concepción hotel, runs the Red Wells ranch house, has become adept at buckwheat cakes, fried chicken and hot biscuits. Of Lohman's nine children, only 3½-year-old Juancito is still at Red Wells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caudillo from Texas | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...year-old, Miss Tilly was an alltime high money winner, but this year, in nine starts, she had not won a race. Last week she made up for all that. In the second and deciding heat, Driver Egan kept her in hand all the way and she was first by five lengths. Miss Tilly took down the third largest winner's share ($37,617) of the second largest purse in Hambletonian history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Straight Heats | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...rock is Kirk Douglas, who began his theatrical career as a carnival wrestler, moved on to Broadway before he went to Hollywood in 1945. In his eighth picture, Champion, Douglas was poisonously perfect in the cobra-cold title role. Warner promptly signed him to a seven-year contract for nine pictures at about $125,000 a picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Big Dig | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

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