Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house on F Street S.W., an old Negro lay on a bare bedspring in the junk-crammed yard, taking the sun. One of his legs was off at the knee. Inside, his son and daughter-in-law lived with their nine children in two rooms. The eldest girl had just borne an illegitimate baby. Tattered cotton coverlets lay in disorder on the only three beds. Chunks of plaster had fallen from the walls, exposing the laths. There was no heat; water came from a faucet in the yard. The young Negro wife giggled in embarrassment, twiddled the wick...
...Nine years later, old Professor Shafer published a sprightly brief of his findings : The Ways of a Mud Dauber (Stanford University Press; $2.50), a slender (74 pp.) book telling what he learned about Sceliphron cementarium during several happy summers. The volume is dedicated to a crippled mud dauber, "Crumple-Wing," of which Shafer was especially fond...
None of the nine matches were runaways for the Red and Gray, except for the unusually slippery Exeter courts, the freshmen might easily have made the contest closer...
...discovering that the Ithacans aren't in the same league with such teams as DU and Brown, the Crimson players were only able to make close battles out of two of the nine matches...
...Only nine fewer men voted in yesterday's re-election, with 331 checked off on the voting lists, and 330 casting ballots. This one-vote discrepancy was a reduction from Thursday's 10-vote error...