Word: seventeen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seventeen courses will be the required schedule for students in the College's Army and Navy units, starting with next year's freshman class, Dean Bender said yesterday...
...Seventeen New England colleges sent delegates to PBH's all-day session to help build up the volume of college volunteer work. After the sessions the majority of these schools signified their intent to expand their number of social service workers...
...Seventeen men were nominated last night to run for the two Class of 51 posts on the Council...
John Horne Burns does not waste words. In a phrase or two, he can put across far more than could paragraphs of pedantic description. Consider his characterization of Mr. Philbrick Grimes, the school busybody, who "zoomed into Princeton at seventeen," and "Kept up a figurative rubbing all the time he talked, like a cat sounding out a hearth." Yet Burns speaks not only as critic, but as philosopher as well: "Capitalism, at least when it's unpanicky, has always tolerated revolutionary criticism from within its own body...
...Criminal Mind. In Detroit, police warned citizens to watch their step: someone had stolen seventeen 150-lb. manhole covers...