Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Twenty six thousand one hundred was chalked up last week as the number of students now enrolled at the University of Paris?largest in Europe. C. Frenchmen registered as unemployed totaled only...
...Baker Library began with a few volumes given it by the Department of Economics, and since then, under the direction of C. C. Eaton '01, it has grown to more than a hundred thousand volumes, including such sections as the Aldrich Library of Finance, the corporation collection, and the original documents division. A good working library has been begun in the field of business and economics, in the assembly of monographs and periodicals...
...stone was one that fell 60 years ago in Central Poland, after travelling, it is estimated, for indefinitely more than ten thousand million years at a hyperbolic speed across interstellar space. This rate was about 35 miles a second; it and the hundred thousand others that came with it in that remarkable shower overtook the earth, which was moving about 20 miles a second. In his speech, Professor Shapley said that "something of the nature of the material universe in those times before the earth and other planets were born can be determined by the study of such ancient meteoric...
...known systems of material bodies, from that of the atom which is a millionth of a millionth of an inch to the cloud of super-galaxies of a thousand million, trillion miles have been classified for the first time according to mass by Professor Harlow Shapley, Director of Harvard's Astronomical Observatory. The classification comes as a result of long research and careful investigation by Professor Shapley...
...capacity of the library on completion will be 3,000,000 volumes, and plans have already been drawn to provide for another million in the future. There will be seating capacity for a thousand readers at a time...