Word: thousande
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Papacy was right when it recently said that the Kellogg pact is not a novelty, but already the thousand-year-old patrimony of the Church of Rome. . . . Anyway . . . politics is an ugly fiction...
They have soared in throbbing airplanes more than 1,500 miles over Congo swamps, diamond mines, cannibals, palm oil factories, pigmies, ivory hunters, and savage, slimy, man-eating crocodiles. Also Their Majesties sailed a thousand miles down the mighty River Congo (larger than any other except the Amazon). By way of climax, they skirted the edge of the Great Pigmy Forest, one of the gruesome wonders of the world. Appalling, it is a place from which dense, choking creepers and great trees shut out the sun. In the gloom spiteful brown pigmies plant poisoned stakes and shoot poisoned arrows...
Swedes were glad: The Roerichs descend from Swedes who a thousand years ago founded the Russian empire...
...thousand feet above Chicago, Jack Cope stepped out the cabin door of his airplane, counted 28 before he pulled the parachute cord, landed buoyantly among a golf foursome. In the 13½ seconds before the parachute opened he had fallen 3,400 feet, a new sheer drop record...
...Life on earth, as scientists recently assured us, is twenty-three thousand million years old. In twenty-three thousand million years the soul goes through many experiences...