Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brutal conduct of the raid quickly disillusioned most and invited swarms of anti-Pyle editorials in Arizona's newspapers. One must wonder whether the satisfaction of moral absolutists in Phoenix is worth the problem caused in a hamlet two hundred miles from the nearest "civilized" metropolis of ten thousand people...
...celebration of its bicentennial, the City, for a nominal thousand dollars, has presented Columbia with 116th Street, which had long run through the middle of its campus. The University has closed the street to traffic, moved in earth, and planted trees and grass in an effort to close out the dirt and noise of a pressing New York. With these trees, a new quiet, and even higher respectability, a great University begins its third hundred years...
...there a theatre public at Harvard? I assure you it numbers less than one thousand--except, of course, for Shakespeare. Will originals draw this public? Considering "The General," presented by the now-defunct Harvard Theatre Group last spring, they will not. Here was a thoughtful play by the co-author of a Broadway production which was by all accounts an artistic success. It had its world premiere in the thinking community of its birth. Yet it was a huge financial failure. We simply cannot take this risk...
...Millions of men now living do not have to be told how "our hero" got out of that one, or out of a thousand similar adventures that made him the favorite of three generations of U.S. boys. When Charles A. Lindbergh hopped the Atlantic in 1927, they were the ones who cheered but were not surprised. How could they have been? Ever since 1910, smart, modest, infinitely courageous Tom Swift had been flying everything from balloons to transcontinental airline expresses, had, besides, invented his own submarine, photo-telephone, electric rifle and enough other practical wonders to make Ford and Edison...
February: The cigarette industry will launch a ten billion dollar Truth, Crusade to show that cigarette smoking does not cause lung cancer. Televised "medical dramatizations" will disclose that tars and resins have been painted on the backs of three thousand woman with "no adverse effects." Magazine ads will portray prominent Park Avenue Russian wolfhounds smoking cork tips...