Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bountiful Tercentenary Fund. Created two years ago, this fund established the roving professorships and national scholarships, the latter to be bestowed upon promising youths from every section of the country that they might have an opportunity for study at a great American university. Last year scholarships of one thousand dollars were made available to students from fifteen states, ten in the Middle West and five in the South and Far West. As soon as additional rescources are at hand, the plan will be extended to other states, so that in time it may cover the whole of America...
...American Legion is in New York. Five hundred thousand jostling uniforms take possession of midtown Gotham. Traffic comes to a standstill. False alarms are turned in from a score of fire boxes. Signs are torn from trolley cars. Police confiscate revolvers, even a one-pound cannon. Two legionnaires die unknown and violent deaths. Soon there will be interminable military music, and for 18 1-2 hours the conquerors of New York are marching up Fifth Avenue...
...last you are here, and there is not only one of you but a thousand--ten hundred men assembled in one locality, susceptible to the wiles of solicitors and to the intricacies of Harvard Square. Some of these ten hundred will find the first weekend lonely and speak to themselves of the Harvard "indifference," as well renowned as the name of Columbus. Some will find the Back Bay accent strange. Before, however, you commit yourself or form a prejudice, accept as hearty welcome the advice of those who were once in your position...
Ominous Notes. Nurnberg's week-long spectacle opened with all the traditional ceremony. Twelve thousand sweating delegates sardine-packed the floor of Luitpoldhalle. In the side seats were jammed brown-dressed Nazi nurses, Labor Corps youth. The few scattered civilians stood out like the second thumbs they felt themselves...
Main Tent. Each day of the political circus featured a different attraction in the centre ring. Most impressive: The march-past on the mammoth Zeppelin Meadow of the Arbeitsdienst-Nazi compulsory labor battalions. Forty thousand lads in rough khaki, 3,000 stripped to the waist, goose stepped past the Realmleader, mirrored thousands of times on the silver-blue spades they carried on their shoulders. Most beautiful: 22,000 alternate Nazi ranks, carrying flaming torches, wending their slow tramp along the search-lit walls of the turreted medieval city. Most spectacular: 140,000 brown-uniformed Storm Troopers lined up column upon...