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Word: nine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they had for two of his other appointments in nine days, his thoughts turned toward the men of Missouri. A Missourian was available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: News for Miss Tillie | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

...night, when he is not going out, he and his wife go through nine newspapers (two New York, two Detroit, two Grand Rapids, three Washington), clip out all the stories about Senator Vandenberg, paste them in scrapbooks. When the books are completed, they are bound in green, shipped to Grand Rapids for deposit in a safe in the Vandenberg home. He intends to use them in writing his memoirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: To the World | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

...U.S.S. Bush, Colhoun, Halligan, H. L. Abele and Pringle. *Among the nine targets: the field at Usa, a town from which the Japanese used to export to the U.S. cheap jewelry stamped: "Made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Desperation Defense | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

Half-Melted Skeletons. Buchenwald is something of a showplace now, nine days after it was liberated, and there are certain things you have to see. There were two ovens there, each with six openings. It was a clean room with no smell. At one end was a wash basin with soap still in the dish and a door leading to the "Büro or office. At the other was a plaque hung high on the wall, black with a symbolic flame painted on it and a quotation from some German poet: "Let not disgusting worms consume my body . . . give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Buchenwald | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

...three sexy, pseudo-Grecian statues left it by Founder Henry Douglas Bacon, from whom she claims descent. Her demand: either remove the statues (which she has never seen) from storage in a University basement, or give them to her. The University decided to give. Weight of the overwhelming gift: nine tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Family Circles | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

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