Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twenty thousand Portuguese, fired as faithful Catholics by the anti-Communist exhortations of Pope Pius XI (TIME, Sept. 21 ), last week signed their names on the long roll of a petition, besought the Portuguese Government to let them form an anti-Communist civil militia to be called the Portuguese Legion...
...World War of a thousand novels from Barbusse's Under Fire to Celine's Journey to the End of the Night, is presented with unqualified horror in most, with victory or defeat equally intolerable and campaigns and assaults measured in terms of the lives they cost rather than the strategy that determined them. But the War pictured in Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Sherston's Progress is War as it appeared to a trained and disciplined British officer, winner of the Military Cross, a poet whose mind was filled with thousands...
...those who spoke an listened during the Tercentenary the term freedom had a thousand implications, but most of them were political. The speeches in the Union Friday night however concerned a slightly different kind of freedom, the liberty granted the individual by University Hall to do as he pleases. Petty regulations like chapel attendance, which, as Dean Sperry pointed out, was abolished just fifty years ago, have been cut to the minimum. In spite of the reputed difficulties of scholastic work now as against the "good old days," even Mr. Perkins was willing to admit that compliance with the bare...
...Seven thousand people will be added to the population of Cambridge today, as the grand influx of upperclassmen and graduate students swarms into Memorial Hall before the 5 o'clock deadline. A grand total of some 8,000 students is expected, slightly higher than last year's figure...
...almost irresistible power of the amalgamated gentlemen swings into action against a rich English Jew, accepted by society for his money. This lonely individual, sympathetically and brilliantly played by Basil Rathbone, incurs the united wrath by accusing a ne'erdo-well army captain of having stolen from him a thousand pounds. Having detected the wastrel's guilt with that incredible acumen found only in investigators who have their authors on their side, he fights a lone and losing battle for his money, even though at least one of the captain's friends, the most influential, is convinced of the theft...