Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...true, we must make a radical change in our modern order of things. If the religious leaders of our day were willing to become failures in the eyes of the world, that they might invest their life in a moral idea, we should reach what the apostles called the Thousand Years of Peace...
...morning at the rooms of the Y. M. C. A., in Boston, a plan was presented for a student federation of the world. This scheme originated a few years ago when a Cornell man, John R. Mott, while at Keswick, England, met representatives of fifty-one colleges, with forty thousand students. Later he went to Germany, Scandinavia and Switzerland. In each of these places he was met by large delegations of students, from almost all the universities of Europe...
...announced from London that twenty-five thousand copies of Marie Corelli's last story, "The Sorrows of Satan," have been sold previous to the day of issue. The Lippincotts, who publish the novel on this side, are prepared for a proportionately large demand for this powerful story...
...carpenters are at work enlarging the seating capacity of the enclosure on Soldiers Field. Benches are being built to seat three thousand more people...
Though we have no complaint to make of the response to the appeal for improvements at the post office,- for nearly a thousand names have been signed to the petition already,- we wish to emphasize a point about which there still seems to be doubt in some quarters, namely as to why University men should concern themselves with a movement like this. They get their mail regularly, so far as they know; what business is it of theirs, they ask, if the government is remiss in the care of its employes, or in any other respect...