Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee has just completed a nine-month study of campus housing needs, and has recommended the immediate construction of dormitory accommodations for a minimum of 300 students...
Still, at Christchurch last week, Ken tried again, and with desperate brilliance, pulled out a match, 2-6, 8-10, 6-3, 6-3, 9-7. It was only the second time in nine matches that Rosewall had won-a disquieting pro debut for World Champion Gonzales' latest high-paid ($65,000 plus) victim, but not a cause for despair. "Ken is only 22," said Pancho. "He will not be at his best until...
...after he made the central decision of his life, is still paying humanity's claim. His hospital at Lambaréné, two days up the Ogowe River, is a rough compound of iron-roofed wooden shacks in a jungle clearing. Schweitzer and his small staff-three doctors, nine nurses -work with comparatively crude instruments (complicated medical gadgets invariably break down in the jungle climate). They have modern drugs, but they do not despise the native alexins. Says Schweitzer: "I have not wanted to introduce these simple people to techniques and tools upon which they might learn to depend...
...became chairman of the board. Frank Johnson, grandson of the firm's founder, George F., and son of its second president, George W., began at the bottom as a tennis-sneaker worker in 1931, eventually managed two of the company's three upstate New York plants, served nine years as vice president of the flourishing family business (1956 net: $2,771,158), which is now the second biggest U.S. manufacturer in the low-and medium-priced fields (first: International Shoe...
Heckscher played his usual excellent brand of squash as he toppled Midshipman Ken Meneke, 15-9, 15-12, 5-15, 15-8, but his teammates were unable to duplicate his performance. The only really close match came at number nine singles where Hank Holmes lost a very tight match to Mike Mitchell...