Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...garden in Winchester is a source of pride almost equal to his literary accomplishments. Each year, nearly ten thousand visitors stop to admire the azaleas which he plants and tends alone. This season, as in the past, he predicts a bad year for the flowers, his last touch with the rural Russia of his youth. Almost unfailingly, however, the plants have survived oppressive frosts, and like their gardener, continue to grow...
...ones, has two advantages. In the first place, it makes budgeting easier because of the previously announced and promised return, and secondly, the reserve fund relieves the pressure on the treasurer. As of last June, there was over nine million dollars in this unapportioned balance--just a few thousand dollars shy of the Treasurer's goal...
According to The Dartmouth, the statement "Bermuda shorts must go," was made by an unidentified high official of the administration in approval of a petition signed by nearly a thousand undergraduates. Signers of the petition complained that "the damned pants are indecent and incite over-sexposure...
...setting utility rates to return a reasonable profit on the company's investment, valued gas produced by the pipeline companies according to the cost of drilling wells and taking out the gas. As a result, the price of gas produced by Panhandle was valued at only 85? a thousand cubic feet, about one-tenth of the market price...
There are three of these cleaning trucks that dutifully swep the one hundred and thirty-five miles of Cambridge street. They are triangular, orange colored machines costing about eight thousand dollars each, with a single rear wheel for steering. Two large steel brushes whirling on the sides root the dirt out of the gutter while a large rear brush flips in into a conveyor belt that carries the mess into a big hopper. The trucks look pretty ungainly and make plenty of noise, but actually they are quite graceful. The secret is in the rear wheel steering that allows them...