Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today, perhaps two dozen of the "too many elms" which displeased Lowell are still standing. As old trees have died, replacements have been made in order to maintain the "classic shade." The University spends thousands every year in maintaining the splendor of the Yard's ancient trees...
...people whose story they enclose-the Prince Consort (Anton Walbrook) and Wellington, dozing in his chair. Peel, Palmerston, Gladstone, Asquith, Salisbury and a dozen others-seem as real as the sombre, graceful rooms, the velvet lawns and old streets that surround them. Most real of all is the Queen herself (Anna Neagle), waltzing at a palace ball, reviewing troops on a white horse, rebuking Gladstone for not preventing the massacre of Gordon's army at Khartoum, telling an old servant how she waved to a crowd of costermongers at her Jubilee...
...Partial list of props used up at each performance of Hellzapoppin: a dozen bananas, a dozen eggs, three dozen balloons, three dozen carnations, five pounds of beans, 150 pounds of ice. three window panes, one box of candy, one straw...
Last July, with an endowment from Crane Co.'s Cornelius Crane, an amateur anthropologist, Count Alfred opened his institute in Chicago to teach General Semantics to educators and maladjusted people. Meanwhile, in about a dozen schools, colleges and hospitals, his students also had begun to teach the new science. Last week was published a collection of papers reporting their accomplishments...
Gathered about a dinner table in the Boston City Club tonight, half a dozen men of Harvard, officers or graduates, will play an important role in the formal launching of "New England Town Hall, Inc." and their conversation will be broadcast over Station WEEI...