Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than 27,000 refugees have fled from Hungary to Austria, and continue to stream across the frontier at a rate of a thousand a day. While the number of students included among these is still unclear, it is certain that many have forsaken their homes in order to pursue free academic inquiry. With the advent of winter, the homeless must be housed and fed--and present estimates place the cost at about six million dollars. Harvard's share of this load must be more than a token...
...vegetables and even live ducks and geese into the arms of astonished shoppers. Old peasant women taking food to the hotels and hospitals were offended if their gifts were not accepted. The city was aglitter with candles. Where the massacre which had sparked the revolution had taken place, one thousand candles formed a circle. Everyone who passed knelt for a brief moment...
...Best Studio, Worst Production." Lehman and Lazard Freres own 150,000 shares of Loew's stock outright, reckon they can count on the stock support of several hundred thousand shares held by their customers and friends, 144,000 shares held by Affiliated Fund Investment Trust, 262,000 held by Manhattan Brokers Thomson & McKinnon for an unidentified Canadian group, some 150,000 shares claimed to be represented by Manhattan Attorney Ben Javits (brother of New York's Attorney-General Jacob Javits), more than 200,000 shares held by customers and associates of Manhattan Broker Arthur Wiesenberger, about...
...most encouraging aspect of the University is its unquestionable desire to improve. With a vast field in which to work, Penn has undertaken an Educational Survey, designed to evaluate every department, school, and feature of university life. Several hundred thousand dollars and 260 men are involved in the study...
...frats, moreover, have deep roots in Penn's history, and to suggest that they are perhaps a bit archaic is to incur undying hatred from many prominent (and wealthy) alumni. The "old grad" would as soon sacrifice a thousand professors as do away with old Kappa Dappa Doo. Whether or not it likes the system, the University is shackeled to it for the foreseeable future...