Word: seventeen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sophomores who are currently straining themselves to look like a pleasant surprise include Art Rouner, stroke of last year's freshman boat; Ollie Iselin, who rowed right behind him; Ted Anderson, a seventeen-year-old dark horse who failed to make any boat last year and Buffy Bohien, George Hewitt, and Clarence Asp, three more members of the '51 boat. Captain Frank Strong and perennial bowman Mike Scully are the varsity holdovers with Bill Leavitt up from the Jayvees as coxswain...
...most famous bells in the college are rarely heard these days. The seventeen-bell Russian carillon, or zvon, which hangs in the tower of Lowell House was the gift of Charles R. Crane. It was brought from the USSR in 1931, accompanied by a carillon expert who started to perform immediately. Since the architects who designed Lowell House had not counted on a zvon, the seventeen iron lungs shook and reverberated through the new structure so much that the residents, now known as Bellboys, erupted into the courtyard, banging pots and pans every time the expert let go. The musician...
...hundred thousand moviegoers packed into 20 Moscow theaters in four days to see the new film success, Young Guard, with music by Shostakovich. Seventeen theaters in Leningrad were also jammed with fans, anxious to see the dramatization of Alexander Fadeev's best selling novel about Russian partisan heroes. Though the music wasn't what drew most of the crowds, Shostakovich could read his press notices and see, with a practiced eye, just where he stood...
...puzzled a little about losing the ball. But what really gets me is how the sports writers can tell one helmeted man from another when they're running like hell fifty feet away in seventeen different directions with no numbers on their backs. "It's easy," one of the writers tells me. "See that prance? Well, whenever you see that, it's Nick Athans...
...Four years ago Walter H. Annenberg's Triangle Publications killed Click, a thriving magazine with 1,000,000 circulation, in order to use its paper for fast-growing Seventeen...