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...seventeen, Young Sam began to roam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Jun. 13, 1927 | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...with the Lampoon back in the straight and narrow path, not the thin and feeble sheet of seventeen years ago (and earlier) but a good, honest wad of text pages and advertisements, its subscribers have become its friends and all others ought to become subscribers without delay. Harvard deserves a first rate magazine, and this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POWEL SEES IN LAMPY TENDENCY TO REFORM | 5/10/1927 | See Source »

...hour and a half. When Memorial Hall was very crowded eighteen men were seated at a table seating twelve and they were expected as they came, in to shove up next to the men already seated. This was supposed to bring every man into direct contact with the other seventeen That seemed to work pretty well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLUB TABLES A HABIT OF MANKIND, WRITES HART | 5/6/1927 | See Source »

...Seventeen years ago, at the coronation of King-Emperor George V, England heard his voice for the last time. Last week, aged 82, he died. Critics said that "the purest tenor" had passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Edward Lloyd | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...Seventeen men sat in a big room arguing. In their hands lay the conduct of all the people living in an area equal to the British Isles and almost as large as Italy. Nine of the 17 voted one way, then one switched, and the vote stood reversed. Then one vote switched again and again the say-so of nine individuals laid a prohibition upon a whole population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOLD: Yellow Fever | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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