Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field-goal percentage, far ahead of Cousy the Magnificent, and up there with the leading giants of the league, Philadelphia's Johnston, 6 ft. 8 in., and New York's Gallatin, 6 ft. 6 in. On the foul line he missed the incredibly small total of nine out of 121 foul shots...
...Knocked almost out of the ring in the first round of his rematch with Mexico's Caspar Ortega, former Welterweight Champion Tony DeMarco came back to trade wallops for nine more rounds in one of the most furious fights in years. But DeMarco couldn't quite stop the long-armed Mexicali Indian, lost to him for the second time in a month on a split decision even closer than the first...
About 8:40 one morning last week, Warren Deane Thomas, a 26-year-old Ohio State University graduate student and employee of the Columbus Zoo, walked into the monkey house to feed the animals. When he reached the cage of Christina, a nine-year-old, 280-lb. gorilla, he found her squatting listlessly in a far corner, indifferent to the hard-boiled egg he held. Then he saw why: on the floor squirmed a baby gorilla-probably the first ever born in captivity...
...through the same process again before six-state district boards which picked the final 32. This year's crop includes five junior Phi Beta Kappas and 24 more who will get their keys by graduation. Two of the men were editors of their college newspapers, nine won varsity letters, four were captains or co-captains of varsity teams. Examples of this year's Rhodesmen...
...first nine winners of $10,000 each easily met Graham's desire that recipients be up to "postgraduate work." The winners, chosen with the help of an all-star advisory committee of top architects, museum directors and Swiss Art and Architecture Historian Sigfried Giedion: Sculptor-Welders Harry Bertoia, 41, of Barto, Pa., Joseph Goto, 36, of Chicago and Keith Monroe, 39, of San Francisco; Painter Walter Kuhlman, 38, of San Francisco; Architects Frederick Kiesler, 64, of New York City and Paul Nelson, 62, an American now practicing in Paris; Painter-Film-Maker James Edward Davis, 55, of Princeton...