Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life of Fred Shibley has much to teach us. A curious combination of human will, seemingly "chance" encounters, and social forces inexplicably opposed to a man's will. At a thousand points his life might have been an entirely different story. And yet somehow it was all inevitable. Mr. Shibley's life is just like our own, only much more exciting...
Then I decided to sell the paper. It was kind of discouraging at first, and I put them off to sale at three cents a copy. I think the first week I sold 25 papers. I cut the printing down to a thousand papers, and even then got most of them back. But the following week I sold fifty, and that was a hundred per cent increase. So I kept going by percentages, and before I knew it I was doing five thousand a week. That was in the early forties, '42. Then we were up to 8000, then...
...universe is an infinitely minute complex of causes and effect, and each effect acts as one of the causes for a thousand other "effects." Isolating a particular cause for any single "effect" is the great Western error. It is like ripping a thread out of a tapestry and calling that the "key" thread in the fabric. And this is what we do whenever we try to "make a decision based on the data." One must give up trying to isolate cause and effect, and see that the process of the universe is an infinitely complex one, that every particle -- including...
...Fifteen thousand tickets were sent to Yale, approximately 6,000 of which were purchased by students and faculty, with alumni buying the remainder. Students were entitled to one ticket for $2 and three others at the regular $6 price. Everyone who applied by the Nov. 7 deadline was accommodated...
...downgrade the set, as I'd like to, is doubtless to cross a few hundred thousand slave laborers. But Agassiz has a genuinely attractive proscenium, and one should no sooner replace it with yellow cardboard than paste floral wallpaper over the Sistine Chapel. Good notions run rampant through Pat Pilz's scenery, always to materialize several sizes too large, several colors too bright, and several pounds too collapsible. They have built the Great Wall of China where a picket fence was called...