Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Twelve thousand Russian Jews are about to emigrate to America...
...thousand quarrymen are on a strike at Lemont, Ill., for an advance from $1.50 to $2.00 a day. The employers are threatening to close up their works...
...York Truth says that there are one thousand women studying art in that city...
...most colleges is a comfortable, sustaining meal, washed down by some of the finest ale in England. The bad fare at Harvard has the effect of sending many students into Boston a great deal more than is desirable, for, astounding as it may seem, Cambridge, a town of sixty thousand inhabitants, is, as Ford wrote of Spain, "a gastronomic erebus," and boasts nothing better in the way of a restaurant than what would be deemed quite fourth-rate in New York. Moreover, the poor food induces, in the words of Cambridge's poet, "restless, unsatisfied longing," which...
...Eighty thousand people have been rendered destitute by the Mississippi floods...