Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General George Catlett Marshall took time out from military affairs to purchase 17-year-old, nine-room Liscombe Lodge in Pinehurst, N.C., planned to spend his winters there after the war (see below...
Building of carriers and cruisers has been delayed as much as nine months. Other "critical" items which will run short unless more workers turn to: rockets, high-capacity ammunition, 40-mm. guns, aircraft, repair parts, dry cells, radar, wire and wire rope...
...standing on the threshold of a new world, Dr. Gesell thinks his pioneering study may lead to explanations of some of the "fundamental riddles of science"; e.g., the nature of life, the meaning of genius, etc. Says he, quoting Samuel Coleridge: "This history of a man for the nine months preceding his birth would probably be far more interesting and contain events of far greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow...
Boasting a roster of ex-college stars, a newly-formed Navy supply Corps basketball team books forward with justifiable optimism to its initial encounter Saturday against Chelsea Naval Hospital. A nine-game schedule has been arranged for the squad, composed entirely of ensigns of Harvard's Midshipmen-Officers Unit...
...already pensioned 130,388 neuropsychiatric veterans of World War II, and nine out of ten of them never saw a battle. The Veterans Administration, which let out these figures last week, believes that most of these men were misfits in the first place, that much public expense could have been prevented by more careful weeding of recruits, especially in the first year...