Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mapes, playing against Captain Cummings of Yale, put up a stiff battle before he succumbed to the intercollegiate champion on the sixteenth green, 3 up and 2 to go. Captain Hodder gave Wattles an even harder fight and carried the match to the seventeenth hole. In the foursomes Mapes and Hodder played the best golf of the afternoon, although they fell before Wattles and Ordway on the nineteenth hole. Barnum and Bohlen conquered Tuttle and Haviland of Yale in a very closely contested match which they ended on the seventeenth...
Professor Kirsopp Lake, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History, will speak in Peabody Hall of the Phillips Brooks House at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the seventeenth meeting of the lecture course in religion given under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Association...
There was a time--back in the good old days when tradition was still in swaddling clothes--when the Yard was as full of characters as a Dickens novel. As early as the seventeenth century one Samuel Gibson had won the general esteem by sponsoring certain midnight parties at his dwelling to which students brought sundry turkeys, geese and other fowls from the neighbors' hen houses to be cooked. More than once the Overseers "sollemnly cautioned" the convivial host "of entertaining any of the students in his house, frequenting the Colledges, or drawing them otherwise into his company...
...Black Armour were immediately recognized as authentic contributions to the lists of American poets. She then turned to prose and her delicately wrought, colorful, ironical Jennifer Lorn is a book which is almost too good to be true. In style and in form she imitated in it the mannered seventeenth century and her characters emerge through a screen of rare words and colors. In her new book, to be called perhaps A Venetian Glass Nephew, she dwells partly in a realm of magic. She has made scholarly investigations so that her descriptions of the black art are accurately in tradition...
...forty-eight states and better than could ever be secured in the dilatory, lumber-wagon delays and tardiness of the present method of bringing the laws of the land up to the moral purpose of present civilization, and let us not continue the delays experienced in adopting the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth amendments...