Word: seventeenth
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...Indians captured the next five positions with five members of their present team. The eighth and ninth places were won by Crimson alumni Bill Apthorp and Albert Sise. A Yale student and summer school alumnus, Ned Baldwin, finished seventeenth...
Liberal democracy, the ultimate triumph of which Western leaders since the seventeenth century have taken for granted, is thus mortally challenged by a new social and political order that bids persuasively for the favor of mankind with dynamic new techniques of education, ideology, and technology...
...Force in Washington insisted that it had never really intended to use Boulhaut as an operational base, and had spent the $23 million on it only to provide a standby base in case of emergency. If so, it was news to its builders and the officers of the U.S. Seventeenth Air Force...
Most of Harvard's original books were bought from English bookstalls, and most of them were printed in Latin and Greek. But for native New Englanders, Boston's Cornhill soon took over the functions of London's Charring Cross Road. Before the end of the seventeenth century a flourishing, if small publishing industry had developed here...
Bermuda shorts and pedal pushers jauntily navigate what was once a grassy lane, called Tory Row, now Brattle Street. Tory Row in the seventeenth century was the home of many of Massachusetts' foremost leaders, members of the General Court and men of that ilk. In the eighteenth century, however, the grandsons of these leaders came to grief, for their vested interest in the Crown government estranged them from their more patriotic brothers...