Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subscriber for your periodical before you had printed a copy of it, hence I presume to ask you to decide a bet as to the number of prominent Democrats whose pictures have appeared on the outside covers of your magazine since you began its publication...
...Washington, the party chosen to board the Coolidge Special for Brule grew to 60, to 80, to 90. The total number included newsgatherers and camera men, but did not account for Rob Roy (white collie), Terrible Tim (red chow), Diana (white collie), Bessie (yellow collie), King Cole (black police dog) and the five White House canaries, all of whom were going...
...saving in interest of $950,000,000. . . . The tide of the good fortune . . . seems not yet to have reached its flood. We take pride in our unparalleled prosperity. In July, 1921, more than 5,700,000 people were without work . . . at the present time the number is not much more than 1,800,000. Manufacturing . . . one-third higher than in 1927. . . . Iron and steel production more than twice as large. . . . Mining industries active...
...enough Marshal Feng himself was nowhere near Peking, last week, but was advancing upon Tientsin with another section of his enormous personal army, which probably totals 100,000 men. In Tientsin were large remnants of the armies of Chang Tso-lin which recently evacuated Peking. These troops, said to number 30,000 and excellently equipped, were commanded by the wounded War Lord's son, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang...
Below are the names of a number of the distinguished personages so honored at the earlier commencements of 1928. It is not necessarily implied that either the institutions or the individuals listed are the "most distinguished...