Word: seventeen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Graduate students are predominantly Republican, 5.7% of them (4) answering "Yes" to the first question, and 29% (2), saying "No." Seventeen percent (1) were on the fence. Juniors are overwhelmingly non-Republican, 66% of those having opinions (2) answering "no." One-third (1) said "yes." Half of the Harvard Freshman class thinks politics "too deep" for them, 25% thinks it doesn't matter and 25% will vote Republican. Sophomores weren't polled because they always know all the answers anyway, nor were seniors who are invariably thoroughly confused. Both, therefore, are unreliable for poll purposes...
...against the partition. Each new person using the phone is unaware of this, and takes another chip out of the receiver. A simple sensible solution would be to install wall racks or merely a stationary hook to set the receiver on. Alden R. Adams '46, of Kirkland House, and seventeen members...
...Hegan Rice's Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch; 1905-Mrs. Humphry Ward's The Marriage of William Ashe, 1908-Rex Beach's The Barrier; 1912-Gene Stratton Porter's The Harvester; 1914-Eleanor H. Porter's Polly anna. 1916-Booth Tarkington's Seventeen. Harold Bell Wright's When a Man's a Man; 1917-H. G. Wells's Mr. Britling Sees It Through; 1919-V. Blasco Ibáñez's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Henry Adams' The Education of Henry Adams; 1921-Sinclair Lewis...
...clock in the morning. Outside Memorial Hall, in a line packed three deep and trailing along Cambridge Street as far as Littaner Center, and hundreds of University veterans waiting to fill V.A. book authorizations. Inside the Hall, nervously awaiting them, are Mrs. Helen McCloskey and a staff of seventeen...
Dorothea Natwick in 1923 plays tennis and flirts with a young libertine, falls in love with a stalwart Progressive from Idaho, and decides to marry the scholarly son of a proud Boston family. The Natwicks, far advanced in airy snobbery, give their clever daughter away at a barn party. Seventeen years later Dorothea's beauty is at its height; she presides over half the gracious living in Cambridge and, at its heart, entertains The Little Group of faculty intellectuals...