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...Seventeen and one-half feet in total height and over ten feet long at the base, the Oriental monster weighs more than 20 tons. When accepted by the University eight years ago it was placed first on a temporary scaffolding in the Yard, so that the authorities could be certain that its appearance would be satisfactory in contrast to the neighboring buildings...
When Dr. Sabin bestowed the certificates, 850 fellow convicts whistled and cheered. They learned that 300 had volunteered for the experiments, even when told that the diseases, while rarely fatal, were violent, painful and feverish. Some of the certificates went to men still weak and shaky from fever. Seventeen of them had to be presented in the prison's isolation ward...
...Seventeen bells make up a real Russian Zvon sot. Lowell House has only 16, one of them having been found to be more out of key than the others. The family bell, fourth largest in the set, now signals the end of classes at the Business School. The 16 at Lowell range in size from a 13-ton brute to a pint-sized gremlin of 22 pounds...
...Seventeen young women suffered from severe acne associated with menstrual disorders. After injections of pregnant-mare serum (a blood extract rich in pituitary hormone), all but three of them developed clear skins, normal menses. Doctors are leary of sex-hormone treatment for acne-it has been "disappointing" in the past -but Drs. Charles Howard Birnberg and Charles Robert Rein of New York City believe that pregnant mare's serum is effective for this type of acne in women. They make no mention of men with acne...
Twenty-One Congressmen. Radio Commentator Quincy Howe cracked that Mr. Hull's Seventeen Points put the Secretary of State seven points up on God, three up on Woodrow Wilson. But most Americans accepted these lofty abstractions as the noble aspirations of a sincere, high-principled man. If the President's and the State Department's deeds matched Cordell Hull's words, no one could complain that the U.S. has no foreign policy...