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...schoolmaster tells his class of 16 to write him a future conditional sentence. Seventeen answers are handed in; the extra one reads: 'Tf you do not come to me, I shall come...
Police investigators quickly discovered that it was diplomatic liquor the burglars were after. They had jimmied their way into the legation, almost wrecked the liquor storeroom in the basement. At the back fence, cases were stacked up for removal. Seventeen boxes of fine whiskey had already been hauled away...
YOUNG LADY OF PARIS - Colette - Boni ($2.50). This sequel to Claudine at School continues Claudine's diary from the point where she left Montigny and her school girl days, went to Paris with her absent-minded widower father. Seventeen, with no companions but her cat Fanchette and an old servant whose trustiness was slightly surpassed by her bawdiness, with a father who rarely knew where she was or what she was doing, only Claudine's sturdy female common sense kept her out of serious scrapes. As it was, she had some minor adventures which a mother would have...
...thoroughgoing display of the industry's wares?there were 83 planes entered by 49 exhibitors?the show was a success. As to the immediate return in terms of sales, there was a difference of opinion. Seventeen manufacturers claimed 636 planes sold for a total value of $1,652,751. Largest claims: Buhl Aircraft Corp., 271 midget planes for $338,750; Pitcairn Aircraft Co., 38 autogiros for $322,000. But other exhibitors, despite an epidemic of price cutting, were frankly disappointed by lack of business. As he did at last year's show in St. Louis, Errett Lobban Cord began...
...Seventeen years ago Dr. Gushing operated on a tumor of the brain. He had performed the same operation success fully many times. This patient died. Dr. Gushing was puzzled. Autopsy showed extraordinary cracks and ulcers of the stomach. Three times during subsequent years, among thousands of successful cerebrotomies, did the same fatal conjunction of gastric ulcers and diencephalic tumors occur. Was there causal relation ship? Dr. Gushing has decided affirmatively...