Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anastasia pretends to be a highly dramatic play, relating the romantic story of an exiled Russian princess, supposedly shot in the Revolution, who suddenly appears in Berlin nine years later. Discovered on the brink of suicide by a White Russian general, Anastasia at first refuses to admit her identity, then suddenly decides to fight for recognition from her grandmother, the Dowager Empress...
...state administration. A Virginia Democrat, he was recommended to the President by Virginia Ike-men, in January 1953, for the job of "reorganizing and revitalizing" the revenue service. He reduced his staff in Washington, but expanded the bureau's field offices, consolidating 17 area offices under nine regional commissioners; he simplified tax-returns for incomes below $5,000 with the little "bank-check" Form 1040-A. Andrews' most notable mark on his job: a restoration of public confidence in tax collectors after the scandals of the latter Truman years...
...next Harvard and most of the world heard of Connolly was a month later, when, with nine other American athletes, he showed up in Athens and proceeded to win the hop, skip, and jump--the first event on the first day of the modern Olympics...
...formal statement before a meeting of nine club heads, Thompson said that either he or a representative of the YRC would meet with members from other clubs at any time for discussions, but that he will not join anything which has an official title and which tends to unite the different clubs...
Jaeger has devoted himself to this "contemplative life" ever since 1897, when, as a nine-year-old student in Lobberich, Germany, he got his first Latin text book and worked all the way through it immediately "because it was so interesting." He went on to get his Ph.D. at the University of Berlin, taught there for a year, and then, at the age of 27, was named Professor of Philology at the University of Basel, Switzerland--the same chair that Nietzsche had occupied. From there he returned to Germany and a professorship at the University of Kiel, and then...