Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suspects that this preoccupation with Egyptian arcana has affected Drury's other literary skills. Drury was never famous for creating endearingly human characterizations; yet the figures in his latest book actually impress the reader as having been embalmed for a thousand years. They are not unbelievable--it is merely difficult to understand why Drury would ever have bothered to resurrect this hedonistic, simple-minded Pharaoh and his sycophantic friends. The dialogue, moreover, could only have been overheard coming from inside a dusty sarcophagus. Like the stiff-jointed and forbidding statuary that is ancient Egypt's gift to the world...
Among the first in a string of 26 marching bands was one more familiar with the endzone of Soldiers' Field than the streets of South Boston. Harvard's band, with only about 20 members marching, drummed up old Irish favorites like "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard...
...these forms, dubbed the Living Newspaper, was designed to dramatize the news, or as an official of the project said, "to shake the living daylights out of a thousand books, reports, newspaper and magazine articles." But the Living Newspaper was more than just current events acted out. As the director of the Federal Theatre during the '30s, Hallie Flanagan, put it, "the Living Newspaper from the first was concerned not with surface news, scandal, or human interest stories, but rather with the conditions back of conditions...
...Three thousand physicians are covered by the insurance plan, including all of the doctors at Stillman Infirmary, Dr. Sholem Postel, associate director of University Health Services, said yesterday...
...November 22, 1909, Clara Lemlich called for a resolution to strike at a mass meeting of garment workers in New York City. Thirty-thousand unorganized workers answered the call. The uprising of the women shirtwaist makers led to the successful signing of full union contracts for 312 shops in New York. The strike lasted 13 weeks despite police beatings and mass arrests...