Word: thousand
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...right kind of a lark and work him right, you can easily train him to get up at 9:30 every time." What about bad habits? Twain is an expert on giving up smoking: "I can give it up whenever I want to. I've done it a thousand times." Why is he wearing a white suit? "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society." Wielding the satiric pinpoint that is sometimes more deadly than the sword, Twain proceeds to let the hot air out of do-gooders, religious humbugs and assorted hokum peddlers...
...thousand such people "marched" on Washington in early April to let the Administration see that the problem was a real one. They were met by that fine, old, "prosperity-is-just-around-the-corner" line which Republican officials have found so handy in times of economic crisis. Specifically, they were told--in a Labor Department press conference clearly aimed at quieting them--that unemployment was on the decline, that the problem was licked, that they could go home and trust...
Forty-five thousand dollars still needed to meet the $300,000 goal will be raised by NAASR local committees throughout the country during the weeks remaining before the convention...
...small grey statuette of an Eskimo is among the several thousand dollars worth of still unclaimed property recovered by Cambridge police last week from the apartment of Miss Margaret E. Canty, a former secretary in the Mineralogical Library...
...unhappy bull, Sick in soul and body both, Slouching in the undergrowth Of the forest beautiful, Banished from the herd he led, Bulls and cows a thousand head...