Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia's Judge Curtis Bok, himself an author (Backbone of the Herring), ruled thoughtfully that nine novels (including works by James T. Farrell, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner) seized in vice-squad raids were not obscene. Said the court: "I should prefer that my own three daughters meet the facts of life and the literature of the world in my library than behind a neighbor's barn, for I can face the adversary there directly...
Over a period of eight or nine years, he pointed out, prices have shot up an average of 72 percent. During that time--1940 until now--Radcliffe costs have gone up 36 percent, or only half the average spiral...
...South, suh, there's no sech thing as snow, and people knock off nine holes before and after every corn fritter. While the Harvard squad has been swinging ski poles and replacing the turf on sitzmarks, the southern schools have spent the last month practicing on blossoming courses...
Golf would be an easy game to follow this spring, if there weren't any scoring. The team will use three different methods of tallying a meet, depending on whom it plays. Sometimes the final score will add up to seven, sometimes nine, and sometimes 27. Unlike single rounds, the winner is the team that scores the most points. Don't let it throw...
...class in the number of entrants was the 155 pound division, boasting nine men including newly crowned House champion Johnny Baker of Dudley. There are five men competing at both 145 and 165, and four...