Word: nine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...timber on the outskirts of the tract, getting closer & closer to the little village, until one pine crashed across the church fence. Aroused, tree lovers, historians, librarians of Tennessee, the few surviving Rugbyans protested. To their appeal for help, Congressman Bruce Barton of New York, who was born nine 'miles from Rugby, wired earnestly but distantly: "Only God can make a tree and it takes Him over 100 years." To the Chattanooga Woman's Press Club, Secretary of State Cordell Hull was less aloof: "Assuming that the trees are the ones that I know, I join with...
Spee's brig from nine such helpless victims. This life of raiding was good. Risks, yes, but mostly just an easy kill every three or four days. Two Limeys in one day off Africa a week ago; now a Frenchman off Uruguay...
First contestants: Miami High School, with a season's record of nine straight victories (over schools from five States), v. Garfield High School, New Jersey champions, two years undefeated...
Although Eleo Sears is the Grand Old Girl of squash, she can still tire out the average youngster. One morning last week, when she had no match scheduled, she played nine straight games with hard-hitting, 20-year-old Hope Knowles (who later won the tournament). Five games is enough to wind most women squash players, but Eleo said she was not even warmed...
Over the first four days she was given six large blood transfusions (the last three of blood serum alone), as well as moderate injections of salt and sugar water. In nine days she was out of danger; in two months, neatly patched with skin grafts, she was "completely healed." The "complex regimen" of "properly balanced fluids" and blood transfusions, said Dr. Trusler last week, saved her life. "No local application [of tannic acid]," he warned, ". . . or forcing of water . . . can be expected to save life after a large burn...