Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three-the U.S., Britain, Russia-dominated the polyglot gathering. The Soviet Union (in numbers at least) dominated the Big Three. Russia had sent a team of 36 delegates, plus nine "advisers and interpreters," to London...
...battlefields northeast of Canton, darkness persisted. The Japanese who had overrun the American air bases at Suichwan and Kanhsien pressed on to Namyung, source of steel-hardening wolfram. The great airfield at Sincheng, big enough for B-29s, was lost just nine days after an army of coolies had completed the heartbreaking task of pounding the runways smooth and straight...
Fistfuls from Firehouse. Because Check is played with a 48-card pinochle deck (i.e., two ordinary 52-card decks with all cards below the nine discarded), every deal is bound to provide a fistful of aces, kings and queens. Bridge players, accustomed to holding a number of "bust" hands during an evening of play, will perk up at such a splash of face cards. Then, too, whereas bridge games often drag out as hands are passed because they are too evenly distributed, almost every Check deal gives either side a chance to bid and make a contract...
...opposition's 39.2, is also led by a footballer turned sharpshooter, Center (blocking back) Dick Duden. The Middies, using a court brand of their rough, bruising gridiron tactics, last week tripped Temple (55-to-47) and West Virginia (60-to-40) to make it nine straight...
Four hundred fifty-nine athletic certificates, which will serve as temporary wartime substitutes for the regular H.A.A. letter awards, have been engraved and are ready for distribution, H.A.A. director Carroll F. Getchell revealed yesterday...