Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same fashion, with Yale winning on the last possible point. Gallwey had been down, 2 to 0, but rallied to win a pair of 15-12 games. After dropping behind in the final game he manged to pull even at 13-all, only to lose the best-of-nine deuce...
Neither team was able to get a decent shot during penalties to Downes for holding at 6:18 and to Ed McGonagle for tripping at 10:28. Sloppy play at center ice resulted in only four saves for Pratt and nine for Jones during the period...
...Minnesoto, while Reece J. McGee is from the University of Texas. Their book is an analysis of employment policy in major American universities. Their "data" consists of interviews with the department chairman and another colleague of every professor who voluntarily or involuntarily vacated a chair in any one of nine large universities between July 1954 and July 1956. Their conclusion is that universities seek employees who will enhance their national prestige, which means employees whose publications will receive national attention...
Among members of the nonmining faculty at Columbia, the huge gifts caused some wondering. The School of Mines has a fine tradition-it was founded in 1864 and is the oldest in the country-but it has only 49 students and nine professors, for years has been merely a department of the School of Engineering. The wonderment is understandable: the chair of mining will be one of the U.S.'s most heavily endowed professorships...
...sorriest record of any team in major-league hockey-a game played almost exclusively by Canadians living in or visiting the U.S. in pursuit of their trade.*In all that time, the Black Hawks managed to finish as high as third only once, wound up dead last in nine of the past twelve seasons. But this year everything suddenly changed. To the astonishment of their most devoted supporters, the revitalized Hawks are second in the National Hockey League standings...