Word: seventeen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very agreeable to be able to conclude with the statement that, thanks to permission courteously accorded, fac-similies of the entire document, which measures some seventeen inches by twenty, are now being executed. They will be of the full size of the original, and will leave nothing to be desired in style of production.- Letter to the London Academy...
...prepared the anthropometric chart. It is intended to furnish the youth with an incentive to systematic and judicious physical training, by showing them at a glance their relation in size, strength, symmetry and development to the normal standard as deduced from the measurements of ten thousand individuals, ranging from seventeen to thirty years...
...swept down to the finish amid cheers and yells, thundering of guns, and blowing of horns, while Columbia pluckily followed in her wake. As the boats neared the line, Storrow took her up a little and Harvard passed the four-mile flag in 20m 15s., beating the record by seventeen seconds...
...lost for Exeter by the inability of their pitcher to get any control over the ball. Although in the Beacon game, Dillon, the pitcher. proved himself a good player, keeping the Beacons down to four hits, he seemed utterly unable to do anything in the Andover game. He gave seventeen men bases on balls, several times when the bases were full, and let in many more runs by his wild pitches. Exeter played a good game at first, until the nine became thoroughly discouraged at the poor playing of their pitcher and lost all life. Andover evidently went...
...class of '00. "And, papa," he says, "of course nobody would want to belong to the class of nothing at all. Everybody would make fun of a fellow, and he never will feel as if he amounted to anything. If I can't enter college when I'm seventeen, I'd rather wait over a year and go in the class of '97, for then at least I'll be in the class of '01." The father laughs at the boy and teases him, but he says the youngster has taken the matter so seriously to heart that...