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 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.

At five o'clock that night it was already dark, and behind my closed door I was dressing as carefully as a groom.

It was getting on toward 7 o'clock and the German Me-210 plane had been and gone on its eighth straight visit.

Andy's performance was scheduled for eleven o'clock.

Then he asked to use the phone and called Brian Thayer, who said that he was just leaving to keep a lunch date but would be home by two o'clock.

I myself had been up there by seven o'clock, after mushrooms, since there'd been a week of rain which had stopped early that morning and the day was as clear as Sandwich glass.

it was not quite six o'clock when we finished and Charlie said, `` Well, I guess that's it.

Although it was only three o'clock, he stopped in at the Golden Calf.

It was after seven o'clock.

It was three o'clock before I figured it was all right to go.

As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.

The morning air was filled with the sweetish odor of new-spilled blood, the acrid stench of frightened horses, and the bitterness of burned powder.

He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning, and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith Pierce had made it seem.

I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.

As we expected, on the following day my Uncle was completely recovered and opened the store as usual at 10 in the morning.

But Nicolas, too, was being interrupted, that morning.

Now, the next morning, they were anchored at The Elbow and the boat was riding directly over the underwater ledge where the green water turned to deepest blue and the cliff dropped straight down 600 fathoms, with the weighted line beside it ; ;

That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.

The freight car was cold, early in the morning.

Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.

Next morning the Caravan was out of the treacherous Bay.

Rob Roy was self-appointed to accompany the President to his office every morning.

As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.

From the night of August 30 to the morning of September 2 there was no Union cavalry east of the Macon railway to disclose to Sherman that he was missing the greatest opportunity of his career.

He never let me know that my visit was about to terminate until the actual morning I was to leave for Lymington.

It began in the morning, and very quickly the hemorrhage was a massive one.

Blackman was to be in New York by February 2, because they were sailing at 12:01 next morning.

Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.

But it was something to have seen it floating down through the early morning sunshine, linking the blue of the sky with the blue of the asters by the lake.

There was a hell of a noise this time of morning.

Then he was asking himself the usual early morning questions: What the Hell am I doin here??

It was the first time any of us had laughed since the morning began.

At the time Alex arrived he was engaged in some sort of intimate communication with the hen, who had settled herself on the nest most peacefully after the occurrences of the morning.