Word: 17th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the college in 1943, carried out the bargain struck with Harvard by his predecessor, Ada Comstock Notestein (TIME, Nov. 24), under which Radcliffe girls were admitted to Harvard classes. Reserved, grey-haired W. K. Jordan instituted a series of graduate seminars, found time to teach two courses in 17th century English history, has done well at money raising. In speaking of his resignation last week, Jordan, 57, listed his academic interests as "teaching, research and administration," in that order, added: "I have come to realize that the college itself has grown over the years, and administrative tasks have become...
Stasiuk tipped in his 17th and 18th goals of the season while the Maple Leafs were shorthanded. In both cases defense man Tim Horton was serving interference penalties...
Titanic Proportions. A gold-crusted coach drawn by six bays hauled the Garcias in style to the Imperial Palace. At a lavish banquet, court musicians played those old Japanese airs, Haydn's 17th Symphony and selections from The Barber of Seville, and gifts were exchanged all around (including a stole and purse for Crown Prince Akihito's bride-to-be, who ' was barred by Japanese protocol from attending). Amiable Old Pol Garcia soon had the shy Emperor beaming...
...publish a list of ailments that, financially, were beneath his notice. His gaudiest feat: curing Edward I's son of smallpox by swaddling the boy in scarlet robes, confining him to a room hung with scarlet drapes, claiming that the color's influence turned the trick. The 17th century court physician had less brass. When France's young Louis XIV caught syphilis, the doctors were too spineless to tell him (or anyone else). They also disguised the Sun King's measles by reporting that the royal body was triumphantly expelling subversive tapeworms...
...passed by on his great black horse. As it turned out. Angélique and the lame count hit it off famously, but the count dabbled in alchemy and was burned at the stake, leaving Angélique to disappear, nameless and forgotten, into the reeking underworld of 17th century Paris...