Word: millions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ending June 30, students were served over two million meals in House and Graduate School dining halls and at the Union. The five House operating from the Kirkland network served 735,000 meals while Dunster and Adams which have separate kitchen systems served 120,000 and 141,000 respectively...
...workers. . ." On the labor market when Mr. Biggers surveyed it last November were 39,978,000 males, 14,496,000 females between 15 and 74. Of these, approximately 7,845,016 who registered were "available for employment." (Latest conservative estimate of unemployed: 10,500,000.) Two and three-quarter million women who in depression clung to jobs rather than husbands were a surprise that made the problem so much worse...
...other way. This is the explosive doctrine of self-determination for racial minorities. It is the doctrine which Hitler has been applying to such advantage for the territorial expansion of Germany, but also the principle which, if strictly applied throughout Europe, would mean the uprising of some thirty million persons who would break up the boundaries of Europe and give back chaos in return. That there should be so many people living on the wrong side of the frontiers is unfortunate, but at least there are seventy million fewer people today in such plight than there were twenty years...
...their classically corseted wives sit complacently, laved in the patrician strains of Beethoven and Brahms. So have they sat every week since the late Major Henry Lee Higginson, in 1881, materialized the expensive idea that Boston ought to have a good symphony orchestra. That idea cost Major Higginson a million dollars...
...urbanely over the story and manocuvres his young master into many ridiculous situations, the funniest being that in which Bertram informs a horrified Sir Watkyn Bassett that he intends to marry that worthy's nicce. But the story leaves Bertic a single man and Mr. Wodehouse one in a million...