Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scandinavians: In Rockford, Ill., he noted the Swedish population's celebration of Leif Ericson Day, cried: "The descendants of the Scandinavian people have not lost in a thousand years the spirit and fortitude which Leif Ericson so well demonstrated...
...Chicago Stadium that night, Nominee Landon found the best-organized, most enthusiastic crowd of his campaign. Twenty-five thousand Republicans bobbed to their feet, 25,000 voices roared, 25,000 U. S. flags were waved as he stepped out on the platform. Inspired, the Nominee responded with the best speaking of his career. Hardly a trace of the schoolboyish drone with which he began his campaign appeared as the Nominee masterfully set his audience laughing and booing at Franklin Roosevelt's 1932 demands for economy, went on to attack his opponent with forceful conviction: "As for his assurances that...
MATHEMATICAL: You give our constituency as a hundred thousand, whereas we claim a constituency (built principally in past twelve years) of a million. There were 12,000 Registered Delegates to this convention-many times that many attended-120,000 sq. ft. of space inside and out of the vast building were occupied by people standing. I estimate a hundred thousand different individuals attended this convention...
...most notable feature of the evening was athletic rather than musical. When Rhadames (Vittorio Fullin) made his triumphal entry, who should be chained to his chariot but Jack ("Little Arthur") Johnson, Negro pugilist who once annoyed whites by being heavyweight champion of the world. Five thousand music lovers gaped and cheered while the barrel-chested black writhed in his chains and leopard skins to add artistic verisimilitude to his walk-on, nonsinging role of a captured Ethiopian general...
...scene is any good Harvard game, a real big one of nation wide interest. Thirty or forty thousand people have streamed across Larz Anderson Bridge, have kept their own tickets, thank you, and are esconced safely in their seats somewhere between the score board and the loud speakers. And of this number, or any number, about 850 to 1000 people have been admitted free of charge...