Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge of "selling" the extra-curricular study of our nation's history and culture to the undergraduate body. Yesterday the list of thirty candidates for the first examination was completed, and though thirty may not seem a large number out of an undergraduate group of over three thousand, the University should feel encouraged in finding thirty men who have enough initiative over and above that spent on their regular courses and examinations to submit to an extra, special set of exams, all for the love of the subject. It is a heartening beginning...
Relying on two glockenspiels for the melody and gaining terrific power from its percussion section comprised of a pair of cymbals, several drums, and a pail, rendered notable offerings of "Ten Thousand Men of Kirkland" and other well-known Deacon marching songs...
...thousand of the foreigners now fighting in Spain shall withdraw from the Rightist and also from the Leftist side; 2) After these "token withdrawals," commissioners dispatched by the Non-intervention Committee shall ascertain with fair accuracy the numbers of interventionists, this with a view to the ultimate withdrawal of all in "progressive and proportional" stages; 3) When the Nonintervention Committee finds these large-scale withdrawals have reached a "substantial" total, the Great Powers are to grant full belligerent rights to the Rightist Government and to the Leftist Government...
...expedition's cooperative program for increasing knowledge of the gibbon and other Asiatic primates included also a comprehensive field study of gibbon behavior and social relations. Systematic studies were made on 20 different groups of wild gibbons in their undisturbed natural habitat. Their behavior was recorded in several thousand feet of film, while sound recordings were made of most of the typical gibbon calls. Nine live gibbons were brought back to New York
...ocean liners, a health center for the poor in Harlem, and the west side highway on which you can travel from Canal Street to Poughkeepsie with-out stopping. As for driving out business, under the Fusion government the gain in factories from 193-35 was over six thousand, an increase of 35 per cent. And the police protection of life and property, though never perfect in such a city, has been unusually fine, especially in view of the smashing of rackets by Mr. Dewey, the Special Prosecutor appointed by Governor Lehman to do the work which a Tammany District Attorney...