Word: seventeen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seventeen-year survey of the munition potentialities of American industries, the War Department studied 20,000 plants and found 10,000 suitable for war production. Full cooperation was received from owners and staffs of the plants, many of them assuming heavy personal expense in aiding the investigation and making changes to fit the plants for war work...
Representing the student body in the College government is its business, and a majority of its seventeen members (six from the Junior and eleven from the Senior class) are elected by their classmates. The rest are appointed by the elected men to ensure that all groups are represented...
...back to the Caribou to be coupled with her gas tank valves. While the two planes soared out over Foynes at 120 m.p.h., the tanker flushed the pipe line with nitrogen (to remove air, which, in combination with gasoline, might explode), pumped after it 800 gals. of fuel. Seventeen minutes later she uphauled the line, waved cheerio and cocked around for home. The Caribou knuckled down to her 3,500-mile flight against heavy winds...
...fifteenth victory for the Yearling nine, out of seventeen starts, and vindicates them for their loss to Lawrence Academy earlier in the season. Huntington recently had turned back the Academy boys and were rated as possible favorites in yesterday's game...
...Seventeen undergraduates leave early this morning for Princeton to join in the five round-table discussions at the fourth annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton Conference on Public Affairs, which begins this noon with a luncheon address by President Dodds...