Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suppression of the yellow fever epidemic in Texas this year cost the government $35,000. One hundred thousand dollars was appropriated...
...close game for it. The college in general is prepared for the most brilliant issue, and will not entertain a sincere doubt until the fact is demonstrated that we are to be champions or are not to be, and it promises all the support that can come from a thousand voices and a thousand enthusiastic...
...front of the poles. Appleton snapped the ball to Hammond who carried it forward five or six feet, where Harvard made a solid block with ten of her men, leaving only the quarter-back behind the line. The ball was then passed back to Mason, and as the thousand spectators held their breath he sent it flying over the bar, thereby winning the game, just four minutes before time was up. Then the pent-up enthusiasm of the crowd burst forth, and cheer on cheer went up, making the wildest confusion until time was called and the game decided; then...
...February, and the president, secretary and treasurer are then ballotted for, and all vacancies in the board of directors are filled by ballot. The superintendent is appointed by the directors for a fixed term and at a fixed salary, which for the coming year will be upwards of a thousand dollars. The total expenses of the society for the year are very small in comparison with the amount of business transacted. The leading items being the salary of the superintendent, rent of store, express bill, printer's bill and postage...
...thousand dollars has been bequeathed to Boston University "for the purpose of clothing worthy theological students...