Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There were some few who voiced their belief that the only training for business was acquired at a tender age with a broom on an office or factory floor. There were some others who liked to employ college men but only after someone else had "broken them in." A number conceded that a collegiate business school might impart some useful knowledge but it could not train executives. Business executives we were told, like Michel Angelos and Shakespeares, are born, not made. I remember well a question put to me, in the first year of the school, by one of these...
...least one paid probation officer will be placed in every Federal court and that in the larger courts, which handle thousands of these cases, there may be several officers, to make the probation treatment close and effective. Not only will this development relieve Federal prisons from a large number of first offenders who never need to go but it will reclaim thousands of them, and eventually will save the Government far more than the salaries of these officers...
...Brigham Hospital in Boston. Last week the recently resigned medical director of Montefiore, Dr. Ernst Philip Boas and his chief assistant published a meaty, precise book on the subject.* Special hospitals exist for insane and tuberculous chronics, but no hospitals, except at New York and Boston, for the vast number of those otherwise affected. The great plurality of chronics are grudgingly and inadequately maintained at general hospitals, homes for incurables, almshouses,† city infirmaries, homes...
...city of Watertown. 10.000 more than there are in the city of Binghamton and three times as many people as are to be found in the largest village of the State. Only 24 counties out of 63 in the whole State have a population in excess of the number of people that can be housed in this building...
Capt. Harold A. Cunningham navigated the S. S. Leviathan westward from Cherbourg with a record-breaking number of passengers aboard (2,730). With millionaires bunking with the crew, dowagers traveling third class, Captain Cunningham wired a berth-seeking friend: "Would put you up in my own cabin but every locker is full. Reserving bottom shelf for you next trip...