Word: seventeenth
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...hands of the government. All that now remains is for the Allied powers to decide on a suitable place of internment this time far from European politics and the incident will be closed. Thus the twentieth century treats an adventure which in its romantic nature, reminds one of such seventeenth century affairs as the Duke of Moamouth's invasion of England. We, it seems, are far from romantic; forty-eight hours is cold-blooded in its brevity...
...officer, along with the tea and tobacco, rice and rugs, that daily pass his inspection. What is he to base the value on--selling price in this country, value to the dealer, or literary value for the ages? If he is to pass upon a Shakespeare quarto of the Seventeenth Century and a volume of Bishop Blougram's sermons of 1880, which will be tax the higher? The latter is a bigger book, in better condition; no doubt the Shakespeare collector will be satisfied; but what of the divinity student who needs Blougram for a thesis...
Other important acquisitions in the Department are three Indian portrait miniatures of the Mughal School of the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries, the gift of Mr. Denman W. Ross...
...unable to give his course on Continental Europe; 1871-1914, and his lectures in History 1. Professor R. H. Lord '06 will be away for the second half year and will be forced to omit his courses on the "History of France in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" and on an "Introduction to the Sources of Modern European History...
...Seventeenth Aero Squadron...