Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first-rate orchestra? He invited Cologne-born William Steinberg, conductor of both the Pittsburgh Symphony and the London Philharmonic, to help him judge a contest for musicians under 40. The pair screened 90 applicants, "weeded out all the dilettantes,'' ended with a list of 19 competitors from nine countries. Each had to prepare a repertory of twelve classical orchestral works, four works with soloists, any two of a list of four modern works...
...says Rostand, "was constructed by and for a certain living species whose reproduction is sexual, whose two sexes are separate and about equal in number, whose fertilization is internal, whose period of gestation is about nine months. The sex of the infants of this species is recognizable at birth and, in general, does not change during life. It is evident that if man were hermaphroditic like the snail or could grow a new head like the earthworm, he would not have given himself the same laws...
...week: 17 youngsters aged eight to eleven are going to French class after school, in the public library; half a dozen boys aged six to eight are getting a first look at science in a floating class that rotates from home to home on Saturday mornings; ten boys aged nine to eleven are digesting a stiff science course in a day-nursery classroom...
Gold-mining shares were eagerly bought on the world's stock exchanges last week. In London, trading was the heaviest in 3½ years, and prices climbed to the highest in nine months. Canada had a flurry in low-priced gold shares. In Wall Street, where gold shares have steadily climbed in the past year, Investment Bankers Dillon, Read let out that they are forming an investment trust ($30 million to start) to buy South African gold shares, thus adding another fillip to the London buying...
...airliner race. To sell such new airliners, U.S. aircraft manufacturers are adopting an old-fashioned marketing technique: the trade-in allowance. Boeing has agreed to take back 14 propeller-driven Stratocruisers when it delivers its 707s to British Overseas Airways Corp., has offered to give trade-in allowances on nine more 707s to Northwest Airlines. Douglas is negotiating with United Air Lines to take in some DC-7s as a down payment on 30 DC-8s; Lockheed is dickering in the same way to sell its turboprop Electras. All told, U.S. airlines have ordered 257 jets and 172 turboprops. When...