Word: nineteen
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Alyosha, a nineteen-year-old soldier away from home for the first time, is rewarded for an act of bravery at the front by being granted six days leave to travel home and see his mother. The war is going very badly--apparently this takes place in the Fall of 1941--and the film is the story of Alyosha's odyssey, journeying from the collapsing front lines back into the heartland of Russia. He is sidetracked during the trip by several isolated episodes. He comes to the aid of a soldier who, having lost a leg in combat, is afraid...
Last September's decision to place a moratorium on the admission of male transfer students came in response to the overcrowded condition of the Houses. Nineteen women transfers were accepted, but a limit of ten was placed on the number who were expected to live on campus...
...THERE'S not one successful businessman I know, Duddy, who hasn't got something locked in the closet," a wrinkle-faced, cigar-chomping Jewish businessman assures the nineteen-year-old entrepreneur. "A fire, maybe. A quick bankruptcy, the swindling of a widow...funny business with a mortgage...a diddle with an insurance agent. It's either that or you go under, so decide right...
...nineteen hot-type workers at Harvard, all of whom are members of the International Typographical Union, are paid about $245 per week for working the day shift and about $260 per week for working the night shift. Hot-type is the traditional composition process which involves linotype...
...Crimson hopes to overcome the disadvantage of a nineteen-day layoff period for exams. The team has not practiced together regularly in the past two weeks, and ten skaters have exams today...