Word: nine
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Lock, Stock & Barrel. In Waterville, Me., Farmer Ray Gilbert & wife loaded a satchel, a hatbox, a few other small pieces, an iron bed, an automobile, a dog, nine head of cattle and themselves into a boxcar, and headed for California...
McKeough's admission that he was still on P.A.C.'s payroll did not help. It brought the Administration down to the earthy argument that his rejection would play direct into Republican hands. Nine Democrats, six of them Southerners, were unimpressed, voted with the Republicans anyhow. But it was not enough. Raymond McKeough squeezed through by an eight-vote margin, was confirmed...
Charging a British deal with the Badoglio government to dominate Italian-railroads for nine years after the conclusion of peace, Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, decried "foreign interference in Italy," and urged, "she must be allowed to rebuild herself under her own free government...
Streamlined during the wartime period, the Student Council raised its membership to nine last week as President Clinton M. Ritchie '47 announced four new appointments. The councilmen were chosen by the existing group of five from lists of recommendations submitted by tutors and House Masters...
Holy Serpents! Backed by the blessings of the gods and the winds of the spring equinox, the Argonauts set sail. On the Island of Lemnos, which was peopled solely by women, the Argonauts generously stopped off to help out with the spring sowing. Nine months later, 200 children were born on Lemnos, of whom no less than 60 were said to be the spitting image of Hercules...