Word: thousands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...forth the idea that the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID) is a disguised Communist trap for college students and that the male members occasionally seduce the female recruits. Wrote J. G. Shaw, ''You can't afford to laugh at them-as I did ... and a thousand other fathers who see their daughters put on the road to Hell-too late." Liberty added that the time required to read this article was 13 minutes, five seconds...
...lost his job, most of his money and his wife, who divorced him. Director Korda whisked back to Berlin, then Paris; found a job at Paramount's Joinville studio. Two years later, he summoned his old friend Author Lajos Biro to help him promote a few thousand francs. With a smart young film salesman named Stephen Pallos and Brother Vincent Korda they formed the enterprise that presently developed into London Film Productions...
Where, demanded a frantic telegram from Los Angeles relief officials to Washington relief officials one day last week, was that check for $2,000,000? It was supposed to have been sent a week ago. Things were getting desperate. One hundred and five thousand families were bawling for their doles...
...rout, their dead piled high around their guns. Bugle calls for retreat were drowned amid savage cries of "EbalgumeI Ebalgume!" Behind the fanatic black warriors came their women brandishing long knives to mutilate the wounded. Killed were two of the five Generals, 4,600 Italian officers and soldiers. Two thousand were wounded, 2,000 taken prisoner. General Baratieri was court-martialed, finally acquitted. Premier Crispi resigned. The peace treaty returned a fine slice of Eritrea to Ethiopia, and the whole business cost Italy some $90,000,000 and a dirty splotch on her military escutcheon...
...thousand ears stayed cocked while Pierrepont Burt Noyes read lengthy telegrams. Mr. Noyes, president of Oneida Community Ltd. (silver plate), managed the spending of the last $4,500,000 on Saratoga Spa and is going to remain with the management to give the Spa éclat. Up to now Jews who learned the wisdom of mineral baths in Germany and Austria have been the most numerous and constant users of Saratoga...