Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drastic boost in purchase tax, mostly on necessaries. Ironing boards, pot scourers, pastry boards, kitchen scales and shopping baskets, untaxed for the last nine years, will henceforth pay 30%. Items formerly taxed at 25%, e.g., bicycles and toothpaste, will now pay 30%; those at 50%, e.g., cars, TV sets and refrigerators, will...
...political reporter on the New York Times (whose editors gratuitously added a "Jr." to Jim's byline to distinguish the generations). Jim Jr. quit after eight years in the city room and Albany Bureau to become press secretary to New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey in 1943. Nine years and three presidential campaigns later, Jim Hagerty joined Ike after Eisenhower received the G.O.P. nomination...
...brains and, according to Shakespeare, their bladders.* It has led men into battle and lulled them to sleep. Last week it was the star attraction, when the Regimental Band, Massed Pipers, Drummers and Dancers of Her Majesty's Scots Guards made their first visit to Manhattan on a nine-week North American tour...
...books circulated by Lamont last month, only nine have not yet been returned. McNiff termed this a "fine achievement" enabling better service by the library...
Having produced a work of craftsmanship, the educational publisher becomes a powerful force in moulding outlook of a child. One series of books prepared by Ginn, D. C. Heath, or the somewhat smaller Allyn and Bacon can follow a child through as many as nine years of his education...