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Word: nine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Resolving the dichotomy inherent in these apparently conflicting facts is actually the best possible "summary" of the squash team's season. The Intercollegiate team title was won on the basis of four men's play, while the other two championships were decided by the performances of nine...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Squash Team to Lose Heckscher, Place But Freshmen Hold Promise for Future | 3/21/1957 | See Source »

Even if next year's team does suffer from early inexperience, it will reap the benefits of its forerunner in a new era for Harvard basketball. For the team which endeared itself with seven wins in nine home games insured basketball of the sympathy and support of its new rooters for many years to come...

Author: By John A. Rava, | Title: Basketball Team Regains Prominence With First Winning Season in Decade | 3/19/1957 | See Source »

...After nine years of dogged work, Chemist John C. Sheehan of M.I.T. announced last week that he had discovered a practical method of synthesizing penicillin V, one of the two most useful forms of the natural antibiotic made by the penicillin mold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Penicillin Synthesis | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...premiums-change accordingly. Its actuarial department alone employs 1,000 mathematicians whose job translating the death odds into dollars and cents is so complex that it would put a Las Vegas gambler to shame. Sample question for an actuary's exam: "What is the probability of throwing exactly nine heads exactly twice in five throws of ten true coins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Chip off the Old Rock | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Truly scandalous books are rare these days, particularly books about religion. This novel is truly scandalous. It has already sold 500,000 copies in Italy (where it was banned) and in France. It is not the first among the nine novels by sometime French Diplomat Peyrefitte to enjoy a popular, scandalous and critical success (Diplomatic Conclusions drew indignant disclaimers from the French Foreign Office). Waspish Author Peyrefitte writes like a countryman of Rabelais and Voltaire, but in the U.S., where there is no comparable tradition of anticlerical literature, he is likely to shock more than to entertain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ribaldry in Rome | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

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