Word: digital
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alexander Woollcott, who enjoyed a six-digit income in his best years and gave much of it away, left an estate of some $70,000. His longtime secretary, Joseph Hennessey, said that the writer left practically all of it to two men: Hennessey himself and Captain Frode Jensen, a 35-year-old member of the Army Medical Corps in the Mediterranean. Danish-born...
...flyer named Pokryshkin roared head on at a slim-bodied Junkers, shot upward, swerved right, then banked sharply, with his guns blazing. The German bomber fluttered down, trailing smoke. At a Red Air Force headquarters, a 35th digit was marked against the name of Major Alexander Pokryshkin. Across the breadth of Russia, men & women grinned and muttered: "Molodets paren"-atta boy. For to them, Alexander Pokryshkin is one of the war's top air heroes...
Nine is of great significance in the Bahá'i religion (TIME, July 20, 1931), because it is the final digit. The Bahá'i faith-boasting 29 adherents in Wilmette, 3,000 in the U.S., and more than 1,000,000 in the world-was founded in Persia in 1863 by one Mirzá Husayn-'Ali, who took the name of Bahá'u'lláh (Glory of God). His followers emphasize the unity of mankind, universal peace, abolishment of extreme inequalities of wealth, and a world faith absorbing all religions now extant...
...first tussle resulted in a 12 to 0 triumph for Stannard and his mates. The first score was effected by a 30 yard march, climaxed by a two yard buck that took the ball over the line. A tally on an intercepted pass took the score into the two digit column...
Endomorphy gets the first digit in the type number, mesomorphy the second, ectomorphy the third. The extreme endomorph is a 711, the extreme mesomorph a 171, the extreme ectomorph...