Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That done, Ohio State began its final push (with support from Iowa, Purdue, Northwestern) in a campaign to crack the Big Nine rule against postseason games. This week, Conference representatives meeting in Chicago said no, this was not the year to break the 24-year-old rule. The Big Nine champs would stay home on New Year's Day, and unbeaten, once-tied Tennessee would doubtless make the trip to Pasadena...
Equally unbeaten but twice tied in nine games, the T-minded Trojans of Southern California would provide the home-team opposition. They all but clinched a second straight appearance in the Rose Bowl by crushing California two weeks ago, made it official last week-with 90,019 witnesses -by drubbing U.C.L.A...
...best-known quality, and it never served him-or baseball-better than it did two years ago. When the service draft hit major-league rosters and some club owners wondered about giving up baseball for the duration, the Judge doggedly insisted that, unless some law prevented putting nine men on the field, the game would...
...Career. Sobered by his accident, and intensely ambitious, Johnson lives even more simply than the average young star. His agent allows him $25 of his comparatively modest $750 a week for spending money; the rest goes into War Bonds and toward buying a house. He gets to bed by nine each working night, studies his script for an hour, smokes his one cigaret of the day. By mid-afternoon each day his right eye begins to droop and he has to take time off ; another result of his accident is an all but continuous headache...
...original picture bore out, in some eleven reels, this bitter preface. After being dubiously received at a sneak preview it was drastically cut, by Sturges, according to the desires of his employers. In its present mutilated nine-reel state, the picture will probably do its best service if it interests cinemaddicts in reading the book on which it is based...