Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lehigh University library, founded in 1877, contains eighty thousand volumes. Ten thousand volumes have been added the last two years...
...first article in the December Atlantic describes in a delightful manner one of the most famous of the old time taverns of Boston. The Bunch of Grapes was one of those old-fashioned inns for the entertainment of man and beast about which a thousand historical memories cluster, and whose kindly hospitality, "though lost to sense, still through memory stirs the heart and kindles the imagination...
...Springfield on Saturday afternoon Harvard played and lost her last game of the season to Yale by a score of six to nothing. There was a tremendous crowd in attendance, fully twelve thousand people occupying the grand stands and coaches. The Yale supporters predominated, but over a thousand men went down from Cambridge alone, while there was any number of graduates present to cheer for the crimson. It was a magnificently played game throughout by both sides and not until the last few minutes of the play could it be at all definitely decided who were to be the winners...
Over fourteen thousand tickets have been sold for the Yale-Princeton game on Thanksgiving day. The price of the tickets...
...There thousand grand stand tickets and seventy-five coach positlons have been sold for the Yale-Princeton game...