Word: millions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...million-and-a-half pleasure craft, of which some 400,000 are motor boats, dot the waters of the U. S. Because of increased leisure and the creation of large artificial lakes as a result of Federal dam-building, the U. S. brotherhood of pleasure boatmen has expanded considerably in the past two years...
...like his less ambitious cousins, the modern anthropoid apes, is a descendant of the late Tertiary dryopethicine ape stock of Europe, Asia, and Africa." In Dr. Gregory's opinion, indubitable apes evolved into indubitable humans during a profound structural upheaval compassed within the past ten or twelve million years...
...Terrible Parents, whose plot involves sons cuckolding their fathers and other incest. When Cocteau offered free tickets to school children, the Paris Municipal Council ordered the theatre's lease canceled, thus closing the show. Cocteau, who calls himself "John the Bird-catcher," at once slapped a five-million-franc damage suit on the city of Paris, alleging his play has "great artistic merit" and insisting that it was left "to the discretion of the teachers to choose the pupils most worthy to profit by the offer of free tickets...
Archaeologists can look forward to piecing together in detail in the future the million or so years of human prehistory following man's evolution from the ape, Donald Scott, director of the Peabody Museum, said yesterday in his annual report...
...million or so years, more or less, of man's prehistory from the time of his apelike ancestors, we can now confidently count on discovering his points of origin, the evolution of his physical self, the upgrowth of his cultures, the relative importance of independent invention or of diffusion, and the direction and extent of his movements over the globe." he said...