Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police department increased its force from two officers to eight after warnings that motorcycle hoodlums sometimes dog the A.M.A. riders, sometimes get violent. (Ten years ago they almost wrecked nearby Hollister, Calif, during a three-day beer and battle orgy.) One day last week, as predicted, almost a thousand of the black-denim trouser set trailed 3,000 A.M.A. riders into Angels Camp...
...succeeded quite well since then. Several thousand students have now received a sub-lethal dose of a few great books and some impressive ideas. They not only exchange them at cocktail parties, but also sit up for hours in Holworthy or Matthews arguing about them. Those early-morning hours are when Gen Ed succeeds most...
...indicating Teaching Fellows as a group. Some of them are doing a first rate job and all are gaining valuable experience. But they are uneven in quality, they get little help or supervision from their seniors, and they are, by definition, inexperienced.... If we add a thousand or more undergraduates we shall inevitably have to use Teaching Fellows even more extensively, with a further decline in the quality of instruction...
...camera could have clicked ten thousand times and never caught an expression like this," purred the caption on a seven-column spread in Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express "What COULD the Prince have said...
...before the Express' deadline. WHAT COULD THE PRINCE HAVE SAID? asked the tabloid Mirror in a seven-column layout. The answer: Nothing. "His conversation with her had ended BEFORE she looked bashful!" trumpeted the Mirror. The Mirror tracked down the photographer who took the one-in-ten-thousand picture, and he confirmed the Mirror's beat. Not only was the Prince not talking to the nurse when the picture was taken, but she was talking to someone else (Queen Ingrid of Denmark), as the uncropped photograph showed...