Word: 17th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American League race had been a blazer, but in the closing fortnight the New York Yankees climbed into the lead and stayed there. Last week, three days before the season's end, they clinched their 17th pennant, wound up three games ahead of the faltering Detroit Tigers...
Much of Susruta's knowledge was lost to the world for centuries. Not until the 17th Century was the true position of the lens (directly behind the pupil, with no intervening "cataract space") rediscovered; not until the 18th Century was a whole defective lens removed. Over the centuries, Dr. Kirby found, the number of instruments invented for the removal of cataracts (e.g., a glass tube and a hollow needle to withdraw the cataract by suction; a metal loop to flip it out) rivaled the number of operations performed...
...Cincinnati -499,749 (17th...
American history (and legend) had begun. Few Americans, of course, had the wit to recognize it in the making. Yet here & there a quick eye, a sharp ear and a busy pen took note of the rich, small doings of 17th Century American life. These early histories, diaries, memoirs and letters, vivid scribbles on the cuff of history, have mostly been suppressed into the dreary, quoteless grey of the professional historian's page. America Begins gives a glimpse of the real wonderland behind that dingy looking glass...
...range of 17th Century American literature is not wide, and its forms are not overly refined. The early colonists were too busy building a civilization to write much about it. Yet its dirt-simple honesty and plow-ahead directness set the main style for later American writing, just as the rugged life it describes was the hardy set of roots which nourished the beginnings of American history...