Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard will be almost exclusively for Freshmen this summer, and that's what makes the abbreviated nine-week term most strikingly abnormal. Except for the SERVICE NEWS and the Summer Chorus, all undergraduate organizations will be dormant, according to present indications. What's more, Radcliffe, Wellesley, and most other institutionalized sources of feminine companionship are out of session; and good little boys keeps away from the banks of the River Charles after curfew...
Asked the Americans with a face-saving phrase: did the officer "wish to come with us?" Said the officer, after considerable discussion, he would consider it. "Come-with-us" day was set and the Jap returned to the jungle. Nine days later, while a Marine battalion gaped, the Japanese officer marched out with 33 infantrymen, plump from eating stolen U.S. C-rations, wearing stolen U.S. fatigue uniforms...
Wily, round-faced Victor Emanuel, who in nine years had helped put together AVCO as an extraordinary aviation holding company, clearly intended to have one foot on the ground, come peace...
...Pont de Nemours Co., Inc., long a favorite target for trust busters, had been indicted nine times in the last three years on antitrust charges. It has been widely pictured as a participant in international cartels ranging from titanium to dyestuffs. Last week's acquittal in Newark's Federal Court cleared the company (along with its board chairman Lammot...
Refrigerators. The War Production Board handed out priorities to nine companies to make 227,709 refrigerators, 155,797 washing machines, in the third quarter of this year. WPB expects to grant more priorities in the next Jew weeks to bring total third-quarter production of refrigerators to 265,000, total washing machines to 350,000. The price of the refrigerators, said WPB, will be "equal to or lower than" the average prewar levels...