Word: nines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long string of posthole diggers, folding lawn chairs, etc. to his credit. He was also in the rubber-tired buggy business, and his shop was a maze of band and rip saws and a big, power-driven sewing machine, which Mrs. Lawrence learned to operate when she was nine years old. Her father incidentally, was descended from a Parisian tailor who emigrated...
Sophie Shanks is a cheerful, God-fearing Negro woman whose only contact with luxury is her night job as a floor polisher in Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza Hotel. She gets home from work in the morning in time to send the eldest of her nine children off to school, and to greet husband James as he leaves their tenement flat for his job on a city garbage truck...
...inadequate did most of the teachers find their salaries that nearly one-half had to work during the summer. Thirty-nine percent said they also took extra jobs during the school year...
Akeley quashed one charge against him when he said, "The last time I were shorts down town was nine years ago." But President Ashby said that the Akeleys had been indoctrinating students with "their own peculiar ideas of democracy...
Indignation mounted. One hundred thirty-nine out of 250 students signed a petition refusing to return unless the administration monded its ways. Some 50 students signed a petition expressing their loyalty to the administration...