Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...three thousand students at the University of Berlin, eight hundred are Americans...
...stand will accommodate one thousand people and will be divided into four sections, one for each class. This will give 250 seats for the members of each class with their friends. There will be leaders of cheering appointed for each section. The price of seats will be $1.00 and as the varsity crew is sadly in want of money this will give every man in college a chance to contribute something and at the same time get a good seat for himself at the class races...
...hall which the Corporation thinks of building upon the Holyoke Street land will be large enough to accommodate about a thousand men. It will cost with I fixtures nearly $50,000. This amount is to be repaid in moderate annual instalments; and interest upon the capital sum and upon other advances made by the Corporation is also to be paid year by year. These re-payments and payments make an annual fee necessary...
...Quincey was the fifth of a family of six children. His father was a Manchester merchant and died at the age of thirty-nine, leaving an estate valued at thirty thousand pounds. At the age of six, De Quincey was sorely grieved by the death of an elder sister, who had read to him the story of the Arabian Nights, which aroused in him such a great spirit of imagination. He stole into the death chamber of his sister and received those impressions, which make up his charming and vivid narrative published many years later...
...thousand six hundred dollars have been given by Byron Shear, Cornell, '74, to that college to purchase a launch for the use of the coach and crews...