Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yesterday, Forbes and the nine-man student committee organizing the preparations for the tour were not sure which foundations or agencies they would contact...
...squash team did it again yesterday, sweeping nine official and two practice matches from an M.I.T. squad that could win only one game all night...
...masterpieces" collected by their mother. Settling finally in Manhattan, they became naturalized citizens in 1945. By then their collection totaled some 280 canvases, which they valued at about $25 million, included paintings with such signatures as Gauguin, Van Gogh, Soutine, Cezanne and Monet. But money was running out. Nine months ago they rented a Madison Avenue showroom, named it the Re-Mi Gallery, and put their canvases on sale. It was a bad mistake. Last week Boris and Mark Lass were indicted for attempted grand larceny...
...fact, it seemed possible that their prospective customers were shrewder than the bumbling brothers. For in the nine months the Re-Mi Gallery was open, the Lass brothers did not sell a single picture...
...away via British destroyers, carrying with them vital secrets that contributed to radar and other wartime developments. Left behind, loyal Philipsmen cheerfully sabotaged what production the R.A.F. did not pulverize. Last week Philips President Frans Otten gave the latest progress report on Philips' amazing comeback. In the first nine months this year, sales of Philips' worldwide empire reached $735,110,000, compared with $636,530,000 in the same period last year, while profits hit an alltime peak of $55,650,000 compared with...