Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House, of the two hundred Districts now represented by Republicans, thirty-nine were "marginal" in 1956--that is, were won by under fifty-five percent of the two-party vote. In the gubernatorial races, the Democrats are not quite so fortunate as they are in the Senate; of the thirty-three contests, twenty will be in states now governed by Democrats. At present, there are twenty-nine Democratic and nineteen Republican governors...
...football team will play a nine-game schedule next Fall, as all other Ivy League schools now do, Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, confirmed yesterday...
This new schedule will give the varsity "the same gate experience as our sister opponents," Bolles explained. Harvard is presently the only Ivy League school which does not play a nine-game schedule...
...team's present eight-game schedule has been in operation since 1953, when, it is understood, the University hoped to persuade the other schools in the Ivy League to follow its reduced schedule. The new nine-game decision indicates that this attempt has been given...
...Game Catch. In Littlerock, Calif., Abraham Burton, informed by reporters that his 32-year-old son Clifford had been arrested on bigamy charges (nine wives, ten children), thoughtfully observed that the boy's hobbies had always been hunting and fishing...