Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abbot of Bazinham once computed that in the first thousand years after Charlemagne, French currency was devalued 40 times. In the 19th century, the gold franc was such a rock that the currencies of half Europe were pegged to it. Lately, though officially pegged since 1949 at 350 to the dollar, the franc has fallen almost as often as French governments. Last week at long last the French government took notice of the franc's real worth and, without using the horrid word devaluation, in fact devalued...
Leonard reported that four thousand bluebooks (32 pages each,) have been purchased to contain this massive conglomeration of fact and fiction. Smaller (16 page) booklets will be supplied to the more prolific writers after the first bluebooks are filled, he added...
Special praise is due Alvin Epstein for another in his series of memorable characterizations. Here he is the rag-picker, who claims the world is no longer happy because it has been taken over by a thousand kinds of pimp. He looks marvelously seedy, with three hats on his head at once and an umbrella that has lost almost all but its ribs; and he is most compelling in his big scene in the second...
...Ways to Die. What still sustains such Verne classics as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Secret of the Island is 1) the vigor and quality of Verne's talent, 2) the Homeric nature of his heroes, villains, and imagined perils. This is epitomized in Captain Nemo, dauntless commander of the submarine Nautilus...
Michigan proved that the little-known Olmec culture antedates the others by about a thousand years...