Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taking to pipes. Across the nation, cigaret shelves were bare and gagsters were demanding "a package of 'Stoopies'-the kind you stoop down behind the counter for." Manufacturers of unknown brands were making-and, some thought, selling-hay. A group of doctors learnedly gave a U.P. reporter nine rules for getting along happily without cigarets (least helpful: give yourself a pep talk; maybe you don't want a smoke, after...
...people who are jittery in wartime. Threats to crack down on black marketers rumbled from OPA. But for increased consumption among both civilians and soldiers, there was no immediate solution. U.S. domestic consumption, which was 206 billion cigarets in 1941, has already gone to 181 billions in the first nine months of 1944. The overseas armed forces (18 billion in 1942, 32 billion in 1943) will get 63 billion cigarets...
...week's end all the communications of Metz from north and south had been cut; the roads and railways to the east were in range of Patton's Long Toms. His pincers closing east of Metz were only nine miles apart. Then the guns of Metz itself opened up on the attackers for the first time in six days. Nevertheless the Yanks took three of the small outer forts...
When it came it would be one of the greatest battles-or series of battles-in World War II. From the Baltic to the Carpathians the Russians had ready nine army groups of perhaps 300 divisions (two more army groups were already moving in Yugoslavia and Hungary). Against them the Germans had ready an estimated 180 divisions (plus 24 Hungarian divisions already occupied in the south...
Most of the visitors to the Deposit Library are students sent by Widener for special research. The greatest advantage of the library is its extensive amount of material. Librarians remember the case of one Harvard student who wished to compare the first nine editions of the Encyclopedia Brittanica...