Word: nine
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When a child in Switzerland would come home crying to mother that the teacher had given him or her a paddling, the chances are nine out of ten that mama would follow up with more of same. I suggest Miss Graner work over Roscoe some more...
When Seagram's moved into the first nine floors of its house last December (the rest of the building, now 90% rented, will be ready in May, the large ground-floor restaurant in August), Mies van der Rohe proudly announced: "This is my strongest work." Says Architect Scout Phyllis Lambert: "You feel its force and restfulness as you enter. From the framing of the windows to the total building, love has gone into it-love for every detail...
Unitypo Inc., two have been sold, eight folded. The survivors: > New York's Jamestown Sun (11,925), also run by Publisher Byrne, who says that after nine years of life it is now in the black and "for sale." < Labor's Daily of Bettendorf, Iowa, a money-losing, nationally distributed tabloid for union members, whose fate is to be decided this week by a special A.F.L.-C.I.O. committee in Washington. < The eight-year-old Columbia Basin News (circ. 11,409), published in Pasco, Wash. The News has been heavily subsidized (at least $500,000) by the I.T.U...
Heavy snows, high winds and subnormal temperatures last week brought Eastern railroads-and their chilled passengers-their worst disaster in years. Nine inches of snow piled up in Manhattan, 13 inches in Philadelphia, and 14 inches in Washington, D.C., and no icicle-encrusted Lower Slobbovians were ever more solidly snowbound. Groaned one passenger who spent 13½ hours (instead of four) between Washington and New York: "A few inches of snow-and blooey...
Last week Uncle Sid announced that he would retire from Yale in June, and after a vacation at his home in New Hampshire ("There I might get acquainted again with my three children and nine grandchildren") he and his wife will leave for Hong Kong, where he will serve as Yale-in-China representative at New Asia College. But in talking over his plans, he was not wholly his jovial self. "I shall miss the boys," said he, "the sinners as well as the saints." Yale's saints and sinners could say the same...