Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within the brief span of ten days last spring, for example, Harvard undergraduates produced nine fulllength dramatic performances, ranging in difficulty from a Broadway musical to a Greek tragedy, in Greek. At the same time, teams of CRIMSON editors were gathering information in the South for a twelve-page feature survey of university racial integration. WHRB was already readying its transmitters for adaptation to frequency modulation, the Debate Council had four teams travelling through the mid-west, and forty-five singers of the Glee Club were in rehearsal for an eight week summer concert tour of Europe...
...Cleveland Indians scored two runs in the eighth to down the rampaging Chicago White Sox, 4 to 3, and snap the Chisox winning streak at nine. Detroit and K.C. were rained...
Daily they reported on the condition of the athletes and gave predictions of noted authorities on the outcome of the nine-event meeting. President Hunter of the Cambridge University Athletic Club was quoted, "The meeting promises to be a keen struggle. The Americans will probably win the sprints, and we ought to pull off the long events, as it is well known that the Americans seldom run a good long race...
...said that the initiative for this meet had come from England. The Oxford and Cambridge presidents had addressed a challenge to the presidents of the Harvard and Yale University Athletic Clubs. The conditions of adoption were that the meet should consist of the nine events which normally comprised an Oxford-Cambridge meet (the 100-yard dash, quarter-mile, half-mile, mile, three-mile, 120-yard high hurdles, high jump, hammer throw, and long jump [broad jump...
...split-level, $20,000 development house designed by the architectural firm of Danforth Compton and Walter Pierce and built by Edward Green and Harmon White in Lexington, Mass., nine miles northwest of downtown Boston. The exterior is finished in cedar to match the rustic surroundings. The interior is separated into functional areas on a triple-level scheme: three bedrooms and bath on the top level; living room, dining room, kitchen and main entrance on the middle level; playroom, utility room and garage (convertible into two more bedrooms) on the lower level...