Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democratic bigwigs in Washington, eying the California results, predicted that in the November congressional elections the Democrats would improve their present 49-to-47 margin in the Senate by six to nine seats, would improve the present 233 to 198 in the House of Representatives by 30 to 50 seats. Eying 1960, states-rights-minded Southern Democrats got a special signal out of the Democratic prospects: if big Democratic years are ahead, they intend to fight for a veto power on the 1960 Democratic candidate. Republicans glumly talked of little more than cutting off their losses...
...keep public education on a sane and salutary keel. Parents in Syosset, New York, an idyllic little community on Long Island, discovered that the glee club director of one school was teaching his singers patriotic songs of the United States, England, France, and Russia--the last a song written nine years before by a Soviet composer. They accused him of being unpatrioic, and it took an investigation by the school board and an admission of "an error in judgment" by the director to clear the air once more...
...error in yesterday's CRIMSON caused a good deal of upset among returning parents in the Class of 1933, who read that "a nine year old son" had praised his rooming accommodations. The minimum age for admission to the Reunion is ten, which is the correct age (plus three months) of the lad who spoke so vociferously Monday night...
...nine-year-old son of one of '33's large number of financiers told the CRIMSON last night that his rooms were "real cool," and thought it was "fine" that he was separated from his parents during...
...only ten when he finished grammar school. At 16 he graduated with a B.A. from St. Gregory's Seminary in Cincinnati, was ordained a Roman Catholic priest at 22. When he was 34 he became Bishop of Toledo, the youngest bishop in the U.S., and nine years later he was Archbishop of Milwaukee. A decade after that, in 1940, the Most Rev. Samuel Alphonsus Stritch became Archbishop of the largest Roman Catholic archdiocese in the U.S.-Chicago-and six years later he was elevated to cardinal. His rare combination of shrewd business sense and warm-hearted concern...