Word: thousande
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand Britons crowded into Hyde Park last week on Queen Victoria's birthday, more popularly known as Empire Day, which England sets aside to honor her great inheritance...
Happy Valley, Tenn., was full of new trouble last week. Ten thousand idle hands itched with mischief. Strikers from the American Bemberg and Glantzoff artificial silk factories at Elizabethton, Tenn., felt the prick of National Guard bayonets...
...Fifty thousand people sat in New York City's Yankee Stadium, where 50,000 people have sat before and will sit again. The sky was blue, the crowd was happy. It was a Sunday ball game. Suddenly, without warning, clouds appeared, thunder clapped, rain poured down. Straw hats, spring clothes were in danger. The bleacherites arose en masse and rushed for the wire-lined exits. The exits were small, the rushers many. In the right-field bleacher section, called "Ruthville" because George Herman ("Babe") Ruth knocks most of his homeruns there, a young girl and an old man were...
...Cambridge this same statute annoys many Harvard students. The Hemenway Gymnasium, the squash courts, both boathouses, and the Soldiers Field athletic facilities are all open Sunday afternoon. But since a corner of Jarvis Field lies within the charmed thousand-foot radius around a church the tennis enthusiast must cross the river to the crowded and inferior courts of Soldiers Field...
Harvard may change all this, for they clutch so closely to the skirts of mother England. But it is doubtful whether any of the "better provinces" ever will. They are a thousand fortunate miles farther west. Michigan Daily...