Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...campus containing about seventy thousand acres, with a driveway seventeen miles in length, is connected with the Leland Stanford University at Palo Alto, California...
Judging from the action taken last year I feel safe in saying that the athletic committee will not allow the freshman crew to go to New London unless it has sufficient money to meet its expenses while there. This will call for about one thousand dollars. To meet this you now have less than one hundred dollars in cash. Of the surplus turned over to me by your football team you are entitled to five hundred dollars, so that it will be necessary for you to raise at least five hundred dollars between now and the time your crew wishes...
Professor Henry Drummond, of Edinburgh, Scotland, was instrumental in forming an intercollegiate association of New York City students called the Students' Movement. The seven thousand students of the eighteen leading colleges of that metropolis are a distinct class. The Students' Movement is about to open a Student Headquarters, with bureau of information as to boarding houses, churches and pastors, and the city generally. At the beginning of the year all students will be welcomed there, and during the year the house will always be open, to students only. Receptions and addresses from prominent men, and religious meetings will be held...
...Cincinnati dispatch gives the following description of the uncovering of sixteen graves at Fort Ancient, the site of the greatest works of the prehistoric mound builders. The excavations here are under the direction of Professor F. W. Putnam, Curator of Peabody Muscum. Two thousand people were present at the opening of the graves...
...prophesy (from the sixth verse of the second chapter of the book itself.) Owing to his age his words would have great influence and his remembering the first temple would be a motive in his urging the building of a second. The prophecy was addressed to about two hundred thousand Jews, who, having returned from Babylon some years before, had become either indifferent to rebuilding the temple or discouraged. The style of the prophecy is abrupt, iterative and concise. The first chapter is addressed to the indifferent, the second Chap., verses one to nine, to the diccouraged, ten to nineteen...