Word: seventeen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Vichy press release claimed that figures, not yet divulged in open court, would show that on May 10, 1940 France had only seventeen 90-mm. anti-aircraft guns, that there were boots for only 3,000,000 French poilus, when 4,500.000 pairs were needed. This was recrimination with a snarl. It was no news to stricken France. Over their rationed wine the oldsters nodded their heads at an editorial in Le Temps...
...relative obscurity, almost completely over-shadowed by the colossus of total war effort, a basic concept in the long term meaning of that effort is under fire. In Minneapolis on December 1 seventeen men and one woman were convicted of conspiracy to advocate the overthrow of the U. S. Government. The case, now on its way to the Supreme Court, has resolved itself into a test of the constitutionality of the Smith Act of 1940, which makes it a penal offense to discuss the over-throw of the government, or to criticize the conduct of the armed forces. Stated...
...Seventeen colleges throughout the nation have been invited to the social service meeting, and a majority of them have already accepted. A new tone will pervade the conference in contrast to the conclave which last year organized the Intercollegiate Committee on Community Service. Emphasis will be laid on student defense service in wartime and that is expected to be the subject of Saltonstall's address...
...their prospectus seems to neglect the all-important fundamental of how they plan to cram seventeen weeks worth of knowledge into the heads of their students in twelve weeks. In the stuffy heat of a Cambridge summer between June 29 and September 19 any undergraduates who wish to hasten their graduation will attend two lectures a day five times a week. For his work in this period a student will receive the same credit as he would in the seventeen weeks of the fall and spring terms attending at least the same number of, classes a week. Apparently the summer...
...National Scholarships in Massachusetts are the same as those now offered in seventeen states in the Middle West, South, and Far West under the plan established by President Conant...