Word: nines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year as the Battle of Antietam, got into organized baseball (as a catcher) during the presidency of Chester A. Arthur. He became a big-league manager (for the Pittsburgh Pirates) four years before Admiral Dewey sank the Spanish fleet at Manila. In his 49 years in Philadelphia he won nine pennants (the last in 1931) and five World Series, trained a roster of greats whose names still make old fans' eyes gleam-Rube Waddell, Chief Bender, Frank ("Home Run") Baker, Eddie Collins, Lefty Grove, Mickey Cochrane, Jimmy Foxx, Al Simmons...
...jobs, selling lemonade at fairs. For nearly 20 years he was a professor at the Lycee of Avignon, at a salary which never came to more than $320 a year. Sacked in 1870 for letting girls come to his science classes, he supported a wife and five children for nine years by grubbing out popular science books. In the end, he saved enough money to realize a lifetime dream, buying a couple of sun-scorched, rocky acres on the outskirts of the town of Sérignan, in the department of Vaucluse. On this scrap of earth, which he fondly...
...also, before he was 35, the veteran of a personal hell from which almost nothing was lacking: a torn and distressful home; the shock and grief of losing his best friend, Arthur Hallam; the cruelty of a sneering review in the Quarterly Review that drove him into nine years of public silence; poverty; a long and apparently hopeless engagement...
...however, Lincoln had become the leader of the Sangamon County delegation of nine Whigs-"the Long Nine" whose aggregate height was exactly 54 feet. Everybody knew that Vandalia's days were numbered as the state capital; it was too far south. In 1837 a new capital would be chosen, and the Long Nine were out to put across Springfield, in Sangamon County, as the new site. An "internal improvements" bill, calling for the expenditure of $10 million or $12 million on railroads and waterways, gave them their chance to logroll. Lincoln became "an amiable, entertaining apostle of adequate transportation...
...calling for the creation of a new county carved from Sangamon and Morgan Counties. This posed a dilemma for Lincoln: because of pressure from home, he would have to vote for the new county, but the new county would mean the end of Sangamon's staunch Long Nine-possibly the end of Springfield as a capital. His solution: a referendum that tossed the county-division bill back to the voters while the Long Nine logrolled the Springfield bill to a quick decision...