Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impossible that over twelve thousand examinations could be corrected and graded without error. And it is only natural that students on the border line of a certain group of the rank list should find that error and wonder if something could not be done about it. Still there is something to be said on the side of the instructor who sends his grades to University Hall and foolishly imagines his year's work done until the avalanche of requests for grade changes deposits him turbulently in the midst of another maelstrom...
...Senate finally put back the $1,000,000 appropriation. Last week the fate of the great 1,200-mile dream belt was settled, as are most legislative matters, in conference. Nurserymen have on hand 60,000,000 seedling trees which the Government has paid them $4 or $5 a thousand to raise. For $2.25 per 1,000, the trees can be raised for another year or two until of suitable age for planting out. For about 50? per 1,000 they can be packed and shipped. To plant them would cost $86 per 1,000. The conference quickly decided...
...business. To house the great influx expected, Dallas has been busy building tourist camps and tent cities on her outskirts, arranging to have Pullman cars kept on sidings for their passengers to live in, arranging a central booking bureau to which visitors can apply to rent rooms in several thousand private homes...
...exchange about one-half the size of Cincinnati's. Last week one of its 50 seats sold for $1,500 compared to a 1929 high of $20,000. The St. Louis market is largely investment, and 90 out of the 100 issues traded are local. A thousand shares is currently a big day. President is Benjamin Franklin Jacobs, 57, a cordial, smartly-dressed broker who thinks that the SEC is a very good thing indeed...
More than one thousand upperclassmen, certain that they had passed their divisionals or their finals, rudely terminated the week-end of Col. Charles R. Apted, '06, and brought the Cambridge police scurrying yesterday afternoon as they forced motorists to run the gauntlet of an artificial Niagara along Plympton street...