Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan involves the sum of approximately three thousand dollars, to be paid to an official "father-confessor" to anyone who finds himself so beset by problems of any and all kinds, that he is beginning to see very little future in continuing to fight the good fight. This man might have an official position, but his work would naturally be confidential. The ideal man for the job would be one who knew the ins and outs of college life from personal experience; who would give sane advice on anything from religious problems to whether taking a girl to the Yale...
...turn in, a car drew up alongside. A man with a pistol leaped out, covered the taxi driver. Two others opened the door of the cab and leaned in. One made a grab at a necklace of square-cut emeralds and diamonds, the most obvious item among several hundred thousand dollars worth of jewelry that Mme Mathis was wearing. The jewels dug into her neck and she screamed. Furiously M. Mathis, who is 52 and does setting up exercises every morning, made a dive at the robbers. All three fell into the street and rolled on the wet pavement slugging...
Roughly speaking, the situation was that around Kidnappee Chiang were a few hundred troops of Kidnapper Chang and around them were a few thousand troops of General Yang, who might be considered as having highjacked the kidnapping. At much greater distance were thousands of troops of Kidnapper Chang's main army and also Nanking Government armies rushing toward Sian, while Nanking bomb ing planes of U. S. pattern wheeled ominously...
Drugs taken by mouth for arthritis are somewhat more efficacious because some of them allay pain, but none "is a cure for arthritis because there are a thousand causes of the disease and each cause requires separate treatment." Continuing his efforts to make vice look ridiculous, Dr. Mayers declared that "of 100 cases of sickness 80 will recover naturally; eight will die in any event, and only in twelve cases can the doctor be of any assistance." He made not a few practitioners in the audience look ridiculous when he concluded: "There is plenty of arthritis that is cured...
...voluminous on the subject, and can talk profoundly on its thousand-and-one ramifications. The purpose of his organization is to induce people to sign cards, saying, "I am in accord with the aim of the Federation to out-law war by popular vote." To date, they have obtained 600,000 signatures in every country in the world. In countries like our own, they have less difficulty, because of the popular feeling for peace. In countries like Italy, Germany, Poland, and Russia, however, they meet with more determined opposition, accounted for by their collective warlike attitude...