Word: nine
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Grey Hodnett and Shad Tubman scored in the last nine minutes of play as the Crimson soccer team rallied for a 2-1 victory over Williams at the Business School Field. The win was the team's sixth in eight starts...
...unfortunate that more space in this review cannot be devoted to nine poems by Elizabeth Jennings, collectively entitled "Sequence in Venice." The nostalgia that several reflections on a visit to Venice might inspire is certainly evident in the poems, but it is tempered by a kind of tough-mindedness that elevates nostalgia above a driveling sentiment. Furthermore, Miss Jennings shows an ability to be ironical about human emotion without being preciously funny. In the first poem, "Introduction To a Landscape," we find this irony...
...McKinlay, a former president of Marshall Field & Co., got control. Under him, the chain stayed in the red till 1940, when the war put it into the black. McNamara found the chain burdened by paper work and centralized control that failed to respond to local needs. McNamara set up nine semiautonomous branches, whose managers do their own buying, advertising and pricing. He bought out nine competing companies (358 stores), closed up white-elephant outlets, built new ones in new neighborhoods. Result: National today has fewer stores (738 v. 880 in 1945) but it has boosted volume per store...
Behind the price boost lay the voracious U.S. appetite for newsprint, whetted by growing newspaper circulation (up 1,300,000 since 1950) and a 10% upsurge in advertising linage over 1954. U.S. demand for newsprint in the first nine months of 1955 has run 7.8% ahead of last year's level, highest in history, even though newsprint prices have soared since World War II from $50 to $127 a ton. Some smaller publishers have been forced to pay $50-a-ton premiums for newsprint on the flourishing grey market...
Going into the game, Crosby had a perfect nine for nine conversion record. His conversion attempts after the first two touchdowns were both blocked, but end Lou Newell kicked the point after the third touchdown when Crosby was ineligible to return to the game...