Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might be a plot to get Yalies to go to classes, though we would guess that Smithies at nine will be little more enticing than 'Cliffies at nine and attendance might drop. It might be a subtle move leading to an enforcement of parietal rules, though this may be too great a break with tradition. But the scheme is probably less grandiose than these, and is probably just another aspect of Whitney Griswold's cultural uplift. Frankly, we had an affection for the old, gross Yale, the Yale that was proud to be uncouth, and we are sorry...
Following the lead of most of the major league clubs, the varsity baseball team opens its regular 1958 season this afternoon. While the Yankees begin their pennant defense in Fenway Park, while the Giants and Dodgers act out a transplanted rivalry in San Francisco, the Crimson nine will be out in Medford facing Tufts...
...Darkening Continent. On the first leg of his 1952 reporting safari for Inside Africa, Gunther awoke to another nightmare: he was going blind. With cataracts closing over both eyes, he explored the darkening continent for 10^ months and 40,000 miles without even a weekend off, ground out nine magazine articles on the road. Unable to read his minute reporter's scribble, he could never have finished the assignment if willowy, tough-fibered Jane had not been along. She scrawled notes on interviews, digested reams of background material, took thousands of photographs for Gunther to pore over back...
Dealers were discovering that hoopla and hustle paid off. In St. Joseph. Mo., dealers reduced prices, had their salesmen call 17,000 listings in the phone book (their pitch: "You can save a lot of money if you buy now''). They sold 454 cars and trucks in nine days-almost twice as much as in the preceding three weeks. Akron dealers raffled off $100 a day among people who took trial drives in new cars, boosted sales by more than 50%. Philadelphia De Soto Dealer Harold B. Robinson promised buyers that they could postpone installment payments if laid...
Different Orbits. In Oswego, N.Y., a second-grade class began building a nine-foot-high interplanetary vehicle, ran into difficulties when the boys complained that "the girls want to put up curtains in our spaceship...