Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other style could be used for the monument Pope has developed, which will be beautiful a thousand years hence. "Modern" will not do for such an enduring building as the style is still in its swaddling clothes. We hate to see the cherry trees moved, but their existence can only be an iota of time compared with the monument's existence...
...shall be in Bilbao any day, any hour," he boasted. "Eight thousand Italians and Germans are leading the advance, and this time we are mixing the Germans in with the Italians just so the Italians will not repeat the Brihuega adventure...
Completely filling the seating capacity and jamming in back and along the sides of Memorial Hall, over one thousand Freshmen with a sprinkling of upperclassmen and non-students attended the annual Yardling Smoker last night. This marked the first time that it has been held in Memorial Hall, the change having been made from the Upper Common Room of the Union to provide more room and less congestion...
...Fifty thousand Britons and many U. S. visitors on hand for the Coronation bustled out to Windsor to gaze at the Royal Horse Guards in glistening breast plates and scarlet tunics, to cheer wildly as King George, Queen Elizabeth and most of the Royal Family wound out of the main gate of the Castle en route to a grassy slope nearby on the river Thames...
...Star Is Born (United Artists) starts by making the point that one girl in a hundred thousand who go to Hollywood to be stars becomes one. It then examines the career of the exception-Esther Victoria Blodgett (Janet Gaynor) who, the day she arrives on the Coast, financed by her grandmother's nest egg, tiptoes into the outer lobby of Grauman's Chinese Theatre and stands tremulously in the cement footprints of her favorite actor, Norman Maine. From this point on, the story of A Star Is Born does not differ in superficial outline from the story that...