Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complete command all the way, Jack Wallace tied down his fourth win of the summer season Saturday as the Varsity nine edged out the PT Night Raiders from Melville by a score...
...Britain), is the lowest paid chief of state in Europe. Like all Austrian government employes, he receives 150 shillings ($15) a month. As Chancellor, Dr. Renner, a longtime Social Democrat, provisionally holds the presidency and portfolios of Foreign and Military Affairs. Of his nine ministers, three are members of the Volkspartei (old Christian Socialists), two are Socialists, two Communists and two without party affiliation...
...Tactic? In six years of undeclared civil war, the armies of China's two factions have had many more serious clashes (in 1941, a battle between the Communist New Fourth Army and Central Government troops lasted nine days, cost more than 10,000 casualties). Then what did Yenan's shrill charges mean at this time...
Duty Before Pleasure. Manhattan's tabloid Daily News, sharing its cameraman's pique, brushed off the wedding in a single sniffy paragraph. The good grey New York Times gave more space to the squabbling than to the wedding. Only the Herald Tribune, among all nine Manhattan papers, put duty before pleasure, and ran a fetching picture of the wedding- taken before the photographers walked...
...rules. Horatio Sr., a Unitarian clergyman in Chelsea, Mass., wanted his oldest son to become a great Boston preacher like Dr. William Channing or Edward Everett Hale. He made the boy read Plato and Josephus (in translation) at the age of eight, and taught him Latin at nine. When parishioners called, Father Alger would ask, "What are you going to be, Horatio?" Horatio Jr. would stutter: "I shall be a t-teacher of the ways of God, a p-preach-er of His commandments, a wiberal thinker, a woyal citizen." Schoolmates called him "Holy Horatio...