Word: nines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midst of that clamor last week, Chambers resigned as a senior editor of TIME. "When TIME hired me in 1939," he wrote in his statement, "its editors knew that I was an ex-Communist; they did not know that espionage was involved . . . After nine years of work done in good conscience, I have been called upon to expose the darkest and most dangerous side of Communism-espionage. This can be done only if a man who knows the facts will stand up and tell them without regard to the cost or consequences to himself. I cannot share this indispensable ordeal...
...record of academic achievements and in almost all of them she has been something of a pioneer. Miss Cam was born 63 years ago in Essex County, England. "I think the most unusual thing about my childhood was that I had no formal schooling. I was one of nine children. My mother came from an Oxford background, and my father was a parson, and together they educated us all. I tried three times to get into Oxford by passing the 'locals' but couldn't. They did, however, show I had a proficiency for history so when I went...
...Johnny Rockwell, he may have to sit on the bench, at least until Bill Prior cools off. "You can't keep a guy like Prior out of the game," Barclay explained yesterday. "He took 20 shots against Dartmouth and scored nine field goals...
...Student Council activities. Both NSA and the Student Council are, of course, non-political organizations, and the YRC has been careful not to have any official say in Fisher's business. All that happened was this: three personal friends of Fisher's, all members of the nine-man YRC Planning Committee, give him advice, or reprimanded him, as the case demanded--strictly in their capacity as personal friends. It would not be fair, on this point, to accuse Fisher of a deficiency of sophistication when he assumed that he was receiving the opinion of the Planning Committee...
...engineers have set 15 foot-candles as rock-bottom for any room in which people will be reading or writing. And there is not a big lecture room in the College that tops ten. Under ideal conditions, Emerson D varies from six to eight, Mallinckrodt MB-9 just reaches nine, and the handsome new indierctly-lit lecture room in the Institute of Geographical Exploration registers little higher. The New Lecture Hall comes through with six-foot candles, accepted as the optimum light-level for gymnasium lockers and public washrooms...