Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called after nine innings, rain...
Spring is here to stay, and so is seven ninths of the batting order of the freshman baseball team. Only the corners of the outer prairies remain unsettled as the yardling nine takes on Brown at 1:30 p.m. today on Soldiers Field...
Against the either-or (either good field or good hit) kind of team, the enemy pitcher knows exactly when he must bear down and when he can let up. It is this spacing of his greatest efforts which allows him to last nine innings...
Most of these laws are being repealed. Nine states got rid of anti-margarine legislation during the last two years; the Senate has a bill before it now to kill the Federal oleo tax. It has been a hard and unusual fight. A recent House measure wanted to give oleo an attractive deep Sunkist orange hue. An eminent lobbyist has stated that yellow is "butter's own color," and that if margarine makers wanted a color they could damn well dye their stuff green. The oleo-makers retaliated to this with a barrage of bright yellow advertisements. One southerner fought...
...first of the three questions he got nine out of a possible 20, a score that gave him some species of D according to the curve on which the examination was graded. On the third question, he got four out of 20, which won him no free games...