Word: nine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old woman, born in Pennsylvania, is known now as "Citizenness Ruth Friederichovna Eterger," and apparently has abandoned hopes of ever returning to the United States to see her nine-year-old daughter or her mother and stepfather who live in Miami...
...best all-around combination in the country. We've said this for two years now, predicting that he would go to the top very shortly, and Jimmy has saved our face by breaking every record in sight with the most disgusting regularity for the past nine months. Down in Atlantic City this summer with lots of the name bands around, including his brother Tommy, Jimmy managed to gather some thousands of dance fans around for a new house record. Reason for this sort of thing is very simple: Jimmy has one of the very few bands that play good dance...
...Eight or nine full professorships has been the average figure over the last 15 years," declared Frederick G. White, Secretary of the Department of English and Secretary of the Division of Modern Languages. "In the middle thirties the number swelled, reaching its high-point of 11 during the 1937-38 academic year...
Yale teachers can now spend a maximum of nine years on non-permanent tenure: four years as an instructor, and five years as an assistant professor...
...Yale Faculty members can stay nine years on non-permanent appointments, as opposed to eight at Harvard. At the end of that period they are kicked upstairs or shipped off to the minor leagues...