Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PROVIDENCE, Jan. 5--Brown ran off nine straight points in overtime here tonight to defeat the varsity quintet, 68 to 63. The game, fast and tense throughout as neither team ever led by more than seven points, evened the season record of both squads at five wins and five losses...
Barnaby's--and Harvard's--secret is depth. Whether his team has an individual standout or not, Barnaby relies on being able to use nine strong players. When he is partly successful, the Crimson finishes third or fourth in the League. When he is successful, which is most of the time, his team is in the battle for first place--usually with Yale. Often there is no battle...
...Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad will cut sleeping-and parlor-car round-trip fares 28% for nine months to see whether lower fares will attract new riders. Sample: Chicago-to-Denver round-trip fare, including Pullman Roomette, will be $84 v. $123 for first-class air travel...
...pinned down $84 million from 15 banks, twelve insurance companies and the sale of 457,873 shares of preferred stock (its common stock rose from a '58 low of 10⅛ to 27⅛ last week). The line will get more than $10 million by trading in its nine double-deck Boeing Stratocruisers to Lockheed and five DC-7s to Douglas. Though the used-plane market is glutted, Northwest swung the trade-in because it held back, was the last major U.S. line to place firm orders for jets, thus was courted energetically by the planemakers. By ordering late...
...Indian Viceroy (Lord Wavell) wanted to free him, there was nothing George could do. One thing he could do directly for his people, and that he did. Londoners will never forget him as the man who stayed on deck throughout the blitz, even though Buckingham Palace was hit nine times during...