Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reviewed an honor guard, and read a reply to the President's little speech of welcome. She rode up Constitution Avenue while crowds, estimated at half a million, many bearing Union Jacks, waved to her. She changed clothes hurriedly at Blair House, and drove off to meet a thousand men & women of the Washington press corps who had jammed into the Presidential Room of the Statler Hotel to give her the Eagle Eye and the Big Once Over...
...band played, cheerleaders cavorted, and nearly a thousand men, twelve women, and sundry gamins massed before the Blockhouse for a quiet pre-Princeton game rally last night. Amidst a din of cheers, catcalls, and exploding fire-crackers, the throng heard the Crimson's end coach Joe Maras predict that the Harvard team on the field today will be "one of the most spirited and determined ever." Line coach Ted Schmidt asked for "as much support at the game as you're showing tonight...
...hundred thousand people had come to Rawalpindi's broad green Company Gardens to hear Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan. Liaquat was in troubled territory: the Northwest frontier is full of tribal jealousies; on one side Afghanistan disputes its borders, on the other lies rich Kashmir, held by India and coveted by Pakistan...
...century will appear to be in the perspective of 300 years? . . . My own guess is that our age will be remembered chiefly neither for its horrifying crimes nor for its astonishing inventions, but for its having been the first age since the dawn of civilization, some five or six thousand years back, in which people dared to think it practicable to make . . . the ideal of welfare for all a practical objective instead of a mere Utopian dream...
...Mabel Baker takes care of over two thousand Harvard Wives, finding them jobs, getting them housing accommodations, and answering questions like "What is the most economical way to have a baby...