Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Government spending has been cut by more than ten billion dollars. Nearly three hundred thousand positions have been eliminated from the Federal payroll. Taxes have been substantially reduced. A balanced budget is in prospect. Social security has been extended to ten million more Americans and unemployment insurance to four million more. Unprecedented advances in civil rights have been made. The longstanding problems of agriculture have been forthrightly attacked...
...numbers, Hong Kong's 2,400,000 Chinese, speaking every dialect of the mainland, dominate the colony, but a few thousand English-speaking whites run it. The mellow beat of wooden clogs on pavement, the clatter of mah-jongg pieces, the wail of radios tuned to Chinese opera, the brays of hawkers and cries of countless babies, all insist on its Chineseness-but the eye is reminded, by the flap of the Union Jack and the crisp gesture of a traffic cop, that here, as nowhere else in Asia, British "law and order" yet prevail...
...While scurrying about advising the administration, foreign students, and freshman, the Council did somehow neglect to keep its own little corner completely tidy. Because of ineptitude traceable to both the Council and the Bursar's Office, the Council was able to collect only one hundred dollars of the three thousand pledged at Registration. Before banking almost entirely on term bill collection for financial support, the Treasurer should have checked sufficiently with the University...
...rules, the Council persuaded Mr. Lunden to open its doors one Friday afternoon to some two hundred undergraduates who had been baffled by his system. When PBH fell into dire financial straits, the Council came to the rescue not only with its own funds, but with three thousand dollars it "inspired" from other sources...
...since most students have left Cambridge by the time the books are corrected. But in the fall term there seems no reason why half-courses like History 61a and Comparative Literature 166 should continue to withhold final exam books from their authors. If a man has read a few thousand words for the course and written a three-hour examination, he deserves to know just why he got his C-plus...