Word: nine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Afterward Schutzstaffel men claimed they found in the university an anti-Nazi broadcasting station and secret printing plant. Soon Prague heard the crack of firing squads. Nine Czech students were executed, and all universities in the Protectorate were closed for three years, treatment no less harsh than the Tsars used to give their rebellious undergraduates. Over 2,000 people were arrested in Prague. Eight hundred were almost immediately released, but the Nazis were said to be sending many of the rest to the notorious Buchenwald prison camp in Germany near Weimar...
Sweden's large-scale purchases of munitions, fuels, certain foods and other "preparedness goods" were revealed to have run up during the past nine months an import balance of 345,000,000 kronor, whereas for the similar period last year Sweden's surplus of imports over exports was only a mildly depressing 140,000,000. Since War II broke, Dr. Wigforss revealed, Sweden has lost roughly 300,000,000 kronor of foreign exchange, due partly to "hot money" withdrawals by investors who are afraid the Soviet Union will yet muscle into Scandinavia as it has into the Baltic...
According to Gardner, who returned in September from a nine months' stay in Poking, Chinese hatred for the Japanese has been intensified by the invaders' terroristic policy of indiscriminate bounding...
While in the long run the participants of these corrective courses are liable to be of the non-athletic type, such is not always the case, as is evinced by George Owen, Jr. '28, a nine-letter man who underwent this period of corrective training...
Page, in his position at right outside, was the star of the game for the Harvard forces. Not only did he make his two scores after nine minutes and 18 minutes of the first period, but he peppered the Bruin goal with shots all through the game...