Word: thousande
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Street and Broadway, Manhattan. They are gentlemen with varied interests-dog and horse racing, realty, baseball, politics, lady friends, perhaps a side line now and then in narcotics or stolen securities. They are, or were, interested in almost anything involving money in sums of ten to a hundred "grand" (thousand dollars), and some stimulating element of risk...
...being an Indian and not a Chinese scholar, had had to be content with buying a certain number of bundles without making an examination of the rest. I then squatted in the cave and in the course of two weeks, all the manuscripts passed through my hands, about one thousand a day. Finally, I bought all of them which were of some interest, in Chinese in Sanskrit, in Tibetan, in Logdian, in Eastern Iranian, most of them Buddhistic, but some also Nestrian, Manichaean, even a Hebrew book of prayers, and also the earliest extant manuscripts of the Chineses classic...
Crowded streets echo "We want war!" Six thousand youths parade and shriek "Death to the enemy!" The Government incarnate, the very front of the people's Jove, places its hand in its waistcoat and replies patriotically "If war is necessary we will...
...October that the Cuttens began operations in Sinclair Consolidated. They bid for it by the ten thousand, by the twenty thousand, by the forty thousand-share blocks. Once indeed Nephew Cutten bid for 100,000 shares of Sinclair at 42-a transaction involving $4,200,000. Finally, on Oct. 26, it was announced that Arthur W. Cutten was to become a director of Sinclair Consolidated-one of the very few directorates on which Mr. Cutten has ever consented to serve. According to the general estimate, he has purchased 1,300,000 shares of Sinclair. He controls probably...
...Three thousand miles is the ship or train distance between San Diego, Calif., and Guayaquil, Ecuador (where President-Elect Hoover was last week, see p. 10), between Manhattan and Queenstown, Ireland, between Washington and San Francisco. Trains or ships join those traveled places in a few days. Getting to the trackless Poles takes months...