For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

The next morning, as the clock struck nine, he appeared at the Council meeting in the Town Hall and insisted that the couple would have to be punished if the Church was to be respected.

and for the next nine days, the impact rate was less than Af ( Nazarova, 1960 ).

After the first two were blacked out, the third light was abandoned by a terrified Italian crew, who left their light to shine for nine minutes like an unerring homing beacon until British MP's shot it out.

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

When she was nine years old, she wrote a description of a store she had visited.

It was nine o'clock in the morning: the hour which, like a spade turning clods of earth, exposed to the day a myriad of busy creatures that had lain dormant in the quiet night.

It was just quarter of nine.

His statistical record that year, when Texas won only one game and lost nine, was far from impressive: he carried the ball three times for a net gain of 10 yards, punted once for 39 yards and caught one pass for 13 yards.

The victory was the first of the season for the Billikens after nine defeats and a tie.

Fuchs, after nine and a half years, was released, being given time off for good behavior.

After playing a splendid first nine holes in 34 -- two strokes under par -- on this fifth and final day of the tournament ( Sunday's fourth round had been washed out by a violent rainstorm when it was only half completed ), Player's game rapidly fell to pieces.

Starting the second nine, Palmer was already four strokes behind Player and knew it.

A year after he was catapulted over nine officers senior to him and made commandant of the Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup delivered a peppery annual report in the form of a `` happy, warless New Year '' greeting to his Pentagon staff.

Instead of linking the nine numbers of this diagram with the traditional Nine Provinces, as was usually done, this equated the odd, Yang numbers with mountains ( firm and resistant, hence Yang ) and the even numbers with rivers ( sinuous and yielding, hence Yin ) ; ;

`` Evadna Mae Evans said she didn't put a thing on her child but a flannel wrapper until it was nine months old ''.

Now it was nine years later, and it wasn't spring but winter when I returned.

He was mad about stars at the age of nine.

There were nine qualified scouts sitting around collecting base pay the day Helva was commissioned.

In Indiana, when Lincoln was nine, his mother Nancy died of milk sickness in 1818.

The United Progressive Party government was re-elected with nine seats and supported by the sole member from Barbuda, affiliated to the Barbuda People's Movement.

Modern commentators speculate ( or sometimes state as fact ) that Álfheim was one of the nine worlds ( heima ) mentioned in stanza 2 of the eddic poem Völuspá.

He was the seventh of nine children of Thomas Vere Wallace and Mary Anne Greenell.

He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria.

This was followed by another edition of the nine poets, collected by Henricus Stephanus and published in Paris in 1560.

Because the summer was unusually dry and hot, the spring produced a smaller stream than in ordinary years.

Joe Purvis was thinking back many years.

The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.

I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.

I was puzzled by the remark, then I recalled the voice of mild Professor Howard Griggs three years ago in a university lecture on primitive societies.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

He was about 50 years old.

Thirty years ago, while the nation was wallowing in economic depression, the prevailing philosophy of government was to stand aside and allow `` natural forces '' to operate and cure the distress.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

Five years were spent with the Cologne Opera, after which he was called to Prague by Alexander von Zemlinsky, teacher of Arnold Schonberg and Erich Korngold.

Seven years later he was asked to become director of the Pittsburgh Symphony.

Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.

Commanding the Continental Army for six long years of the Revolution, he was the indispensable factor in the ultimate victory.