Word: 17th
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...poll, the only Ivy entrants are Penn at 18th and Princeton at 17th...in other Ivy League action from the past week Dartmouth whumped Yale, 2-0, and Princeton nuked Brown...
...team will be in for another very tough fight, as 17th-ranked Providence will host Harvard in a 1:00 match...
...While the world watches a flood of boat people go to sea, many more are on the run inside Haiti, hunted down for their political activities. Estimates of these fugitives range from 100,000 to 300,000 of Haiti's 7 million people. Marronage has its roots in the 17th century, when slaves in the French colony began escaping from plantations into the mountains. After the ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in a 1991 military coup, his supporters returned to the ways of their ancestors. They know the tricks of disguise -- men often dress as merchant women...
Lighter observes that distinctions between "good" and "bad" English were virtually nonexistent before the mid-17th century, when the first dictionaries were issued. Words and phrases that are today considered vulgar expressions for bodily and sexual functions were once common currency among men and women of all classes. The King James version of the Bible referred in Leviticus to "stones" (for testicles); the Second Book of Kings used the common four- letter word for urine. Chaucer deployed 200 separate oaths in Canterbury Tales. And did anybody give a fiddler's intercourse about the proprieties? Dreck no! There weren...
...17th century, they probably thoughtthat everyone should know the Bible," Vendlersays. "One can regret this. I certainly regretthat people no longer know Latin and no longerknow the Bible. On the other hand, every decreaseis matched by an increase of some sort. They knowa lot more about biology, neurobiology andreproductive control...