Word: nines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Austere Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins, 50, a strenuous foe of physical exercise (he abolished intercollegiate football at the University of Chicago nine years ago), crammed his 6 ft. 3 in. into an undersized football uniform for You're in the Styx, Professor, the annual faculty show. Hutchins struck a blow for higher education by warbling, in an uncertain baritone, The Rose Bowl Blues...
...Denmark outdid itself to celebrate King Frederik IX's soth birthday. Among his gifts: a racing motorboat, two carpets, a big electric stove with kitchen utensils, a tractor for plowing fire belts in the royal forest and, from a nine-year-old wellwisher, a letter containing some cigarettes...
Smith College is one of the top U.S. schools for women, but its presidency is traditionally a job for a man.* Its retiring head man, Jonathan Swift scholar Herbert John Davis, who will leave in June after nine years in the president's office, had been plucked from the Cornell faculty. This week, Smith announced it had found his successor at Harvard...
Last April, during China's vice presidential elections, Kung cannonaded: "The election of Sun Fo to the Vice Presidency would be a confession of nationwide corruption." The next day, two truckloads of thugs wrecked the National Salvation Daily and put nine staffers in the hospital. Kung lost only one day in getting his paper out on borrowed presses...
With a handful of chicken sandwiches, a Thermos jug of hot tea and some water beside him, Odom took off and headed east. Nine hundred miles away, he waved goodbye to a B-17 which had gone with him for company. Six hours later he waved hello to another which came out to escort him over San Francisco. Over Chicago, he failed to notice that a gas tank had gone dry, lost several thousand feet before he could get his stalled engine started from another tank. Over Pennsylvania, he plugged in an electric razor and shaved. Then he landed...