Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Doris Garrett, Leonard, Tex., high-school girl, was crowned Queen Onion here June 2 at our Centennial Onion Festival and was featured in a parade of eleven floats and two bands and two drum and bugle corps. Eight thousand people saw her crowned by Congressman Sam Rayburn, Chairman of the Speakers' Bureau, Democratic National Committee...
Late returns indicated that the chain stores had beaten the tax by a few thousand votes...
Walking along the High this morning I met Professor Ballantine and though he didn't know me and I know him only through his fine lectures, we greeted each other almost as old friends. Such is the difference three thousand miles of ocean makes...
...bearded, his old eyes red with weeping, A peasant, with hard hands, "Come now," he said, And see the Road, for which our people die. Twelve miles of road we've made, a little only, Westward winding. Of human blood and stone We build; and in a thousand years will come Beyond the hills...
Twenty-four hours seems too short a time to celebrate two such noteworthy occasions. Yet we must make the most of it. Whether dunking for apples at the Round Up or taming savage tigers on Soldier's field, or sipping Scotch and sodas at Dinty Moore's, Ten Thousand Men of Harvard will have a roaring good weekend...