Word: ninth
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...grass surface, it was not the easiest race for bettors to sort out, and by the time the field of twelve horses paraded to the post, rain was falling steadily. So it was understandable that many fans had started to drift toward the exits. But something happened during the ninth race on Sept. 23 that stopped the exodus and sent horseplayers back to stare at the tote board with envious wonderment. After leading most of the way, a 57-to-1 long-shot Uruguayan import named Lebón had breezed easily to a four-length win-and returned...
Yesterday, on the ninth of Dhu'l-Hijja, the Ka'ba was virtually deserted. It was the principal day of the pilgrimage, when all pilgrims assemble in the Valley of Arafat, 14 miles east of Mecca, between noon and sunset. The road to Arafat is inevitably blocked by heavy traffic and many pilgrims prefer to go on foot. The Saudi Arabian government enlists extra help to manage the traffic for this hectic day, and each year the road is widened in an attempt to ease the jamming...
...Varsity Cross Country (2-7) Massachusetts 47-15L Providence 46-15 at Columbia 24-23L Pennsylvania 50-15L Brown 24-35W Dartmouth 40-17L Greater Boston Championships third Northeastern 40-19 at Princeton 40-19L Yale 27-31W at Heptagonals ninth...
...varsity hockey team opens its 1977 season tonight with a crucial Ivy League contest against Dartmouth. You should recall that last March the Woodsmen handed the Crimson a 2-3 upset, gaining the winning goal with eight seconds remaining in the third period, pounding Harvard into ninth place in the ECAC and eliminating the Crimson from playoff contention...
...failure rate goes down, but the quality and quantity of work also go down Not surprisingly, SAT scores have fallen?57 points on verbal 64 in math, since 1962?approximating the national decline. More than half the present senior class were reading below grade level when tested in the ninth grade; Marshfield has since inaugurated a well-equipped "skills lab" with personal tutoring to help the slower readers...