Word: 17th
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...while Harvard's good and bad news may appear to balance out, the Crimson did improve on its 17th-place finish last season. And the school everyone loves to hate in New Haven, the overwhelming Ivy League favorite, finished only 15 strokes in front of the Crimson...
When I attended the 17th Party Congress in 1934, we were told that only six people at the congress ((out of 1,966)) had cast votes against Stalin. Years later, it emerged that actually the figure was more like 260, which is incredible if you take into account Stalin's position and his vanity...
During the 17th Congress, a party secretary from the North Caucasus went to see Kirov, the Leningrad party chief, and said, confidentially, "There's talk among the old cadres that the time has come to replace Stalin with someone who will treat those around him with more decency. The people in our circle say you should be made the General Secretary...
...climax of 17th century Spain's greatest tragedy, as oppressed villagers hack to shreds their tyrannical overlord, trashing his palace and slaughtering his bullyboy guards, the playgoer's mind leaps to Nicolae Ceausescu's Bucharest, to Samuel Doe's Monrovia and to far too many other gruesome places arraigned in current headlines. Although Lope de Vega's play was written around 1612 and was based on an actual occurrence in 1476, the abuses of power it depicts remain painfully close to our times...
...that some of Harvard's house officials aren't so happy, either. According to several eyewitnesses, Eliot House Master Alan Heimert '49 told a group of sophomores at an open house this week that he was a "man of tradition." And if the beer flowed at Harvard in the 17th Century, he reportedly said, it would just as surely flow today...