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• n  position 17 in a countable series of things
• s  coming next after the sixteenth in position

• Sixteenth-century Europe, seventeenth-century New England, 1980's Americaeach period had its own unique brand of fear-mongering, accusation, and persecution.
• As Sarah Vowell warns early on in The Wordy Shipmates, "Readers who squirm at microscopic theological differences might be unsuited to read a book about seventeenth-century .
• Theroux sets up this section by noting that "in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Indian labour had been exploited for its cheapness.

• 17th

News & Articles

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• Fans Let Loose on Seventeenth Hole
  LPGA organizers are asking fans to break the rules this year at the seventeenth hole.
  June 21, 2013 - KNWA Fayetteville
• Books: John Strausbaugh’s “The Village” review.
  At the heart of this historical overview of the Manhattan neighborhood is a celebration of liberalism, bohemianism, and counterculture. Strausbaugh traces these themes from the Village’s beginnings as a rural outpost, in the mid-seventeenth century, to its present incarnation—“more a place of recreation than . . . (Subscription required.)
  June 17, 2013 - The New Yorker

Quotes

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• Darrell McGraw in The Hill (blog)
  McGraw's office said the interpretation by Tennant's office gives "insufficient weight to the dictates of the Seventeenth Amendment" of the US Constitution, which calls for the popular election of senators and allows only "temporary"...
• Russ Feingold in United Press International
  The controversies surrounding some of the recent gubernatorial appointments to vacant Senate seats make it painfully clear that such appointments are an anachronism that must end,Feingold said. "In 1913, the Seventeenth Amendment to the...
• Brooke Kinsella in Barking & Dagenham Recorder
  Joined by Ben's mother Deborah, 46, father George, 48, and other sisters Jade, 22, and Georgia, 14, devastated Brooke said: "Ben was the seventeenth teenager to be killed in London this year. Our hearts go out to every family who has also suffered...