Word: thousande
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the tastes of the public are obviously becoming lower. The second is that the management of plays is no longer in the hands of a few well established men, but in the hands of many persons some of whom have been mere ticket takers, have accumulated a few thousand dollars, and with their deplorable taste have entered the managing game. Another factor lies in ticket speeulation which, if not curbed, will be the death of the theatre. And a final reason lies in the difficulty of making one's way through New York traffic, a thing which Police Commissioner...
...hundred thousand persons at the lowest count turned out last week, in Mexico City, to follow the hearse of a young man whose sole distinction is that he assassinated Mexico's President-Elect General Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July...
...fortnight ago, when his "Coherent Field Theory" was finally printed (in a six-page pamphlet), he wrote a 5,000-word explanatory article for the New York Times. That article brought him several thousand dollars. The money was useful, for the Einsteins are, like most scientific families, comparatively poor. Not much income ensues from his professorship at the Academy of Sciences or from his directorship at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. Yet the Einsteins, if they were really in need, might look with confidence to their very rich relatives, the Kochs and Dreyfuses of Germany and France. They...
Round 20. In this round several thousand words were hurled. Mr. Aldrich mailed to stockholders a 69-page pamphlet summing up Mr. Rockefeller Jr.'s objections to Col. Stewart and reviewing in great detail the Stewart conduct for the past seven years. Col. Stewart immediately flayed the Aldrich pamphlet as "a cunningly drawn document . . . nothing less than cowardly and dastardly libel...
When President Coolidge remarked that "the business of America is business," most of his listeners thought at once of Big Business-U. S. Steel Corp., Standard Oil of New Jersey, General Motors, etc., etc. But for every billion-dollar corporation there are countless thousand-dollar corporations. For every Big Business that worries about the anti-trust law there are many small businesses that worry about the sheriff. And perhaps it is the little business that moves in the most mysterious ways its wonders to perform...