Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Illinois Ike is a far stronger candidate than Dewey was. While there are no signs of large defections from Democratic ranks, Republicans point out that large defections are not necessary for Eisenhower to carry the state. A shift to the Republicans of five 1948 Truman voters in every thousand would put Illinois in the Republican column...
...Today there is less communication between the great groups of man than there was in the roadless world of a thousand years...
Many Americans are half convinced by the statistical (or Kinsey report) explanation of corruption in Government: out of every thousand people there are bound to be X number of crooks. It's human nature. You can't do much about it. Anybody who gets indignant is a hypocritical old dinosaur...
...years he gave graduate courses to physicians, physiologists, bacteriologists, epidemiologists, nutritionists, mental hygienists and engineers working on water supply, sewerage and housing, forever emphasizing how all these specialties met in the common purpose of protecting and improving the public health. Today, more than a thousand Winslow men are spread across the U.S., in city, county, state and national health agencies, and around the world, preaching his gospel that in the long run the price of health is far less than the cost of sickness...
...Thief (Harry Popkin; United Artists) takes its inspiration from the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words: it is a sound film in which no one ever speaks. The movie manages to get along quite well without dialogue because it is an uncomplicated chase thriller told with the camera on a simple physical and psychological level. The thief is a nuclear physicist (Ray Milland) employed by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, where he is microfilming top secret documents for a foreign spy ring. When the FBI gets on his trail, he flees to New York, kills...