Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Morning dew and cobwebs in the rigging indicate a southwest wind during the day. Nine times out of ten, if you see porpoises there will be an easterly. I don't know why. but I've seen it happen time after time...
Tucker, who for nine years was an attache of the United States embassy in Moscow and who toured the USSR last year with Adlai Stevenson, spoke on "Education and the Soviet Society" at the second Thursday lecture...
Harvard's .benign, bemused Werner Wilhelm Jaeger, 70, world-renowned interpreter of ancient Greek humanism, one of the first scholars to bear Harvard's exalted University Professor title. At nine, German-born Classicist Jaeger fascinatedly read his first Latin grammar straight through, at 25 took over the University of Basel's Greek chair, once occupied by Nietzsche. His biography of Aristotle (1923) revolutionized classical scholarship when he was still a young professor at the University of Berlin; his monumental Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture is a three-volume university, a gold mine of the ideas that...
Suffering from an infected foot, nine-year-old Mungai Njoroge had his fears calmed and diverted at a Scottish Presbyterian clinic in Kenya by a kindly doctor who showed him test tubes filled with multicolored liquids. Fascinated, Njoroge decided that he wanted to be a physician, a next-to-impossible ambition for a Kikuyu tribesman. But for 24 years Njoroge pursued his dream. Last week, at 33, he was at sea, homeward-bound as Kenya's first U.S.-trained African physician. He will soon start construction of a 50-bed hospital, the first in Kenya to be operated...
...gadgets may get a real test this summer. Meteorologist Miller notes that hurricanes have occurred during May only nine times since 1887, and each of those years had an unusually large number of storms. It may be sheer coincidence, or it could be because hurricane conditions become favorable sooner and last longer. If true, the 1959 season may be a lively one. Tropical storm No. 1, Arlene, roared in over Louisiana...