Word: ninth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kelly's Landing in Southie, turn to the southeast and take out a good pair of binoculars--you can see signs of the infinitely promising educational enterprise unfolding a mile out in Boston Harbor. Every school day for seven weeks this fall, a specially recruited group of 30 ninth- and tenth-graders from Southie High--both male and female, black and white--will travelout to Thomson's Island to participate in an innovative environmental education program...
Even as the school attempts the long climb back to educational and social health, the reputation of Southie High seems to precede it for these students, most of whom are ninth-graders. "There's pressure at the high school from all the cops, so no one wants to get along," Vernon McCloud, 16 years old, says...
...here on Thomson's Island, everybody can work together. You don't have to worry about getting into fights, or what somebody else called you. You can't avoid trouble at Southie," Jeffrey Hardy, a ninth-grader who has only spent four weeks in South Boston High, adds...
Radcliffe won the race with 24 points to Tufts's 79, Brandeis's 88 and Boston University's 106. MIT and Boston College did not have the mandatory runners for official competition. The 'Cliffe added ninth, thirteenth and fifteenth places to dominate the top runners...
...April 1976, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco ruled in favor of the small farmer, ordering the Government to enforce the 1902 act. Andrus proposes to do that by forcing large landowners to sell off all acreage exceeding the 160-acre limit to small farmers. Last week he announced that a series of ten public hearings on the new regulations would be held in seven Western states and Washington, D.C., beginning next month. "We expect plenty of testimony, plenty, about how the West was won," he said wryly...