Word: thousande
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand people helped Ripon celebrate its claim last week. President Hoover, as honorary chairman, sent Secretary of War James William Good to represent him, to make a speech. The Good speech did not fully uphold Ripon's claim to Republican primacy. Said he: "The party . . . came up, literally, out of the ground, everywhere, in response to a country-wide demand from the people. Events, not men, called it into being...
Should scholarships be such a gamble? Is it just that the man who works outside a thousand hours a year and misses the Dean's List by the difference between a "C" plus and a "B" minus should receive nothing more than a form letter of regret, especially when his numerical average may be actually higher than that of a man on the Dean's List...
...Boxley was promptly arrested, lodged in the jail at Trenton, a neighboring village. That night several thousand people milled about the jail, beat on its door, demanded Joe. The officials slipped Joe out a back way and carried him to Alamo, put him in the jail there. It was after 3 a. m. Joe lay down in his cell, dozed...
...makes of automobiles at great distances. Of late years however the imitative impulse on the part of the nation's body designers has reduced the sport to the most minute sort of scholasticism, and painstaking detail work is necessary in order to tell the newer makes apart at a thousand yards...
...contemporary tanks," a battleship which explodes - and, on top of all this, New York's East Side tenements would have to be first bombed, then swept into the sea. . . . Mr. Wells was unhappy when he finished The King Who Was a King. Reason : "Not one in a thousand who would see this gladly on a screen will ever read it as a book...