Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shadow of the new the past looks upward or averts its eyes. An idea, a gift, a burst of undergraduate wit, an impassive digging of foundations and overnight a Unit has changed the skyline, like the house that Jack would have built if he too had had ten million dollars...
...claims of Mrs. Sabin who numbers sixty thousand women in an organization so far without a membership drive are modest beside Mrs. Peabody's twelve million strong for reform. In spite of this apparent one-sidedness, a poll in women's colleges would furnish more vital statistics as to where this body of public opinion might swing in the future and would produce more interest in the unbiased survey of the Prohibition question...
Some hundred thousand dollars had been contributed to the new party's "war chest" by more than half a million persons. Suddenly they got their money back, every pence and pound of it, each contributor receiving a crisp cheque and a "personal" (mimeographed) letter from the leader of the party, the man who was to have been Prime Minister, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook...
...gave the world light?good light, cheap light. Is it my fault if they used it to outrage the beauty and peace of the night. ?to make a cheap bazaar out of every street and avenue, selling one another cigarettes and chewing gum at the rate of a million candlepower a minute? I gave them the phonograph, so that every man, woman and child might know the glory of great music and great speech; so that the great singer, the great instrumentalist, might have all future generations of men for his audience. So I thought and dreamed. Yet today...
Musical-EARL CARROLL'S SKETCH BOOK, SWEET ADELINE, BITTER SWEET, HEADS UP!, SONS o' GUNS, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN, WAKE UP AND DREAM, SIMPLE SIMON (Ed Wynn...