Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost before the firing ceased, the British and French had frogmen down inspecting the hulls of the half-dozen ships scuttled by the Egyptians in Port Said harbor. Not until nine additional blockboats which had been scuttled further down the canal had been inspected could anyone be sure how long it would take to get shipping moving again (see BUSINESS...
...those who read this page so faithfully each day, the sudden change in weather can mean only one thing--the winter athletic season, with its nine sports, is almost here. And so, appropriately, the following is some early season commentary, in very brief form, on the potential of two of the Crimson's major winter teams...
PRINCETON, N.J., Nov. 11-There just was no contest out at Palmer Stadium yesterday. A Princeton football team, two-strong at every position, and taking amazing advantage of Harvard's long-standing pass-defense weakness, smashed the Crimson, 35 to 20, and extended its undefeated streak to nine games over a two year period. The loss was the fourth in six games for Harvard...
...Saturday it did a surprisingly strong job. The Tigers, without the services of fullback Hewes Agnew after the first period, found it difficult to gain much rushing, but once again the Harvard pass defense made a hero out of a comparative unknown--this time, substitute Jim Mottley. Mottley completed nine out of ten passes, including two for touchdowns. He also scored one himself, on a 20-yard...
...became head of the joint chiefs of staff in 1925, resigned the post in disgrace (1940) after Italy's abortive Albanian campaign, later was called out of retirement to replace Mussolini (July 25, 1943) as head of the shaky Italian government, signed the armistice in September, nine months later dropped out of sight when his government collapsed and was re-formed by a National Liberation Committee...