Word: 17th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is still no word from the U.S. 17th Regimental Combat Team, ordered, to withdraw from positions on the Manchurian border several days...
...almost trunk to trunk, rose to heights of 80 feet before branching, and gave one man "a particularly unpleasant, anxious feeling, which is excited irrestibly by the continuing shadow and the confined outlook." Rattlesnakes made the white men turn still whiter with fear. "As for the Buff [alo]," wrote 17th Century Great Lakes Explorer Pierre Radisson, "it is a furious animal...
...diorama of Harvard in the 17th century has been added to the two from other eras already in place in Widener Library. This new model depicts the University as it looked in 1677. The others show the same site as it appeared...
...curious crowd packed the paneled, 17th-floor room where three judges of the U.S. circuit court of appeals sat; many had to be turned away. The appeals arguments were technical and lengthy, 125 pp., for Alger Hiss's case, 66 for the Government. For three hours, Hiss's counsel and a Government lawyer made their points, answered questions from the court. Then court adjourned, and the Hisses silently made their way through the crowds to the street and disappeared, to endure another long wait. It will be months before the case is finally settled. The appeals court will...
...nine days in Des Moines' KRNT Theater, the 600 delegates to the 17th biennial convention of the United Lutheran Church in America gathered for nine purposeful hours a day. Moaned one weary churchman: "This is almost as bad as Congress...