Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whoever is responsible for stocking the PX assumes lowly tastes on the part of the servicemen. I, a servicewife and a veteran of many PXs, can work myself into a huff just thinking about it. ... I'll wager nine out of ten comic books are bought in desperation. If people like to read and depend on it for relaxation, they'll read anything rather than nothing...
...came from Britain's powerful (nine 16-in. guns), 33,900-ton battleship H.M.S. Rodney...
...Mallett of the Bellboys and Dick Clapp of the NROTC shared scoring honors yesterday, each piling up an even dozen points. Paul Haskell and Julian Hatton each accounted for nine of Lowell's score. Dick Foard and Joe Henrici were outstanding...
...present, the college's connection with the Navy V-12 and Marine programs requires a schedule of three 16 week terms a year. Summer of 1946 will see an eight or nine week summer term at Yale, followed by the return to a two term year late in September. 1947 will also very likely bring with it another short summer term, said DeVane...
Squirearchy's Decline. The Headmistress, tenth and latest of the Thirkell line, is just like the other nine. When Headmistress Madeleine Sparling evacuated her blitz-threatened London girls' school to Harefield Park in Barsetshire, impoverished Squire Belton of Harefield welcomed the fat rent she paid for his manor. But he suffered an anguish of snobbery over having his ancestral home occupied by a bunch of "elderly . . . slightly deformed [school] mistresses" dressed in wartime "utility non-crease . . . ready-made dresses of a kind of fine sacking in shades of puce [and] dirty tomato'' -to say nothing...