Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Band also re-played its Ivy League Album numbers last night and set them on tape. Twelve thousand printings have worn down the master records, and the group had to make new masters before re-issuing the album this fall...
...Sons of Saint Patrick who want to extend Dublin's beneficent domain and presumably would be anxious themselves to enjoy the blessings which they urge upon the reluctant Orangemen. When the exchange is accomplished, the opposition to a united Ireland will end, the U.S. will gain several hundred thousand of the sober and diligent folk who gave us Andrew Jackson, Stonewall Jackson, Cleveland, McKinley and Woodrow Wilson, and Ireland will gain a like number of Hagues, Curleys, O'Dwyers, McCarthys-"The task of filling up the blanks I'd rather leave to you; but it really does...
Early last week, under cover of night, a fleet of Red junks crossed the channel southwest of Hoihow. A few thousand invaders disembarked. From jungle hideouts in the island's craggy interior, Red guerrillas (30,000 strong) moved down to a junction with their comrades on the beaches...
Said Dr. O'Brien: "Let us have the honesty to accept the futility of our present methods alone, and the courage to embark immediately on a program of extensive BCG vaccinations, without which tuberculosis will present the same problems a thousand years from now as it does today. Unless we use vaccination as in smallpox and diphtheria, there is, in my opinion, no hope...
...elective council, with members worried about re-election; partly to recent Councils' preoccupation with "public relations." The present petitions may be frivilous or they may be quite sincere; their wording is loose enough so that signers' opinions about the Council may run from intense antipathy to apathy. But the thousand-odd signatures on the petitions, whatever their motivation, ought to persuade he Council to take at least a long look at itself, and then put in for a much-needed refit...