Word: seventeen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Seventeen per cent of the men in the Yale freshman class use tobacco...
...training for the Mott Haven games has begun. Already seventeen men are at work in the Gymnasium which number will soon be increased. This is a very gratifying beginning as it points to a long term of careful training and the prospect of a body of men in splendid condition when the season opens for outdoor exercise. Nor is this energy wasted. We can never be too sure of winning in the inter-collegiate games. Many things may happen to mar our chances where so many events are to be contested for, and such a variety of mishaps...
...Seventeen men are in training for the Mott Haven Team. They use the chest weights and run on North avenue every afternoon. More men will begin to train soon...
Bulwer's first poem, "Ismael, an Oriental Tale," was written when he was a schoolboy of seventeen...
...build up a museum which shall "not only meet the wants of the public at large, and of beginners as well as more advanced university students, but also promote research by giving assistance to specialists and original investigators." With this in view the space has been allotted as follows: "Seventeen rooms devoted to the exhibition of collections for the public; ten work and storage rooms in the basement, for the alcoholic collections; thirteen work and storage rooms for the dry Zoological collections; eight similar rooms for the Palaeontological and Geological collections; and thirteen rooms devoted to the laboratories, lecture rooms...