Word: seventeen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question." Crater Lake was formed some 10,000 years ago, when 12,000-ft. Mt. Mazama blew its top. The eruption covered 5,000-odd square miles of Oregon with pumice six inches deep. Incandescent avalanches fried the Klamath Plateau for 25 miles around the vent. Seventeen cubic miles of rock were blasted to smithereens...
Then, at Chateauguay again, the Witnesses tried to hold another meeting. Again a mob (about 1,500) threw eggs, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, stones. Witnesses who tried to get away were chased and pummeled. Seventeen Witnesses were arrested...
...Seventeen year olds who will have finished their current college term by June 25 or who will have gained a high school diploma by that time are eligible as candidates and may appear before the Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board at First Naval District headquarters, located at 150 Causeway Street in Boston...
Beatrice Lillie, at the piano, sings I'm Just Seventeen and I've Never Been and, in asthmatic duet with Mr. Brook, Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes. She delivers the perfect Lillie line, "You will find the dinghy by the jetty." But the essence of On Approval's charm is not in such familiar bravura; it is in the muted perfection of Miss Lillie's general performance, and in the excellence of the supporting players. It is in the way Clive Brook handles his stick and gloves, or invites himself downstairs for a drink...
...Seventeen had serious dust injury to their eyes, one man died of dust in his respiratory tract, three others were made very ill by it. In addition, at operations for other injuries, "the anesthetist remarked time & time again on the dirt in the pharynx and trachea [throat and windpipe]. Standing out in my memory are two in which the inside of the trachea was quite black and dry with dust. . . . An air-raid warden . . . told me that several of the dead found by his rescue party had been suffocated by dust-the mouth, nose and throat being completely blocked...