Word: nines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayor George Baker of Decorah, Iowa, who says young men aren't what they used to be, offered $50 to anyone who could match his grandfather's feat of carrying a 60-lb. sack of wheat nine miles from Conover to Decorah in one hour and 55 minutes. Ten tried. Six made it, through a snowstorm. Two of them bettered grandfather's time- by 15 and 14 minutes, respectively...
When the baseball season ends, Doc Hyland's busiest season begins. For nine weeks, ailing ballplayers have come to his St. Louis office to see the man known as "baseball's surgeon-general." Dr. Robert Hyland has a physician's professional reticence about discussing patients; besides, baseball's big winter meetings are coming up. "Some of the men are liable to be up for trading," said...
...company: he opened a store on the "Miracle Mile" of Los Angeles' snazzy Wilshire Boulevard (in Prudential's big new building). To strike a spark, he had stocked the store with cotton dresses at $1, woolen dresses at $3.95, nylons for 97? a pair. Just nine minutes after the store opened, he had to shut the doors again. Some 20,000 shoppers had clogged the aisles and escalators. Less than two hours later Ohrbach's was on the air with fervent pleas of "Please, please don't come to Ohrbach's today...
...Director William J. Bingham '16 was elected president of the Heptagonal Games Association yesterday in New York and his first official act was to welcome Brown University into the nine-college group. The association also gave up trying to keep up with its increasing membership and changed its name back to Heptagonal after being Nonagonal for a year...
Felton took fourth place in the 1948 Olympic hammer throw, while Dreyer, of the New York Athletic Association, was nine times national champion in the 35-lb. weight class. Burnham, captain of the Dartmouth track team, will attempt to break the Dartmouth record in this event, and if as he is up to form has a good chance of doing...