Word: millions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...totally blind people in China should pass in review in single file before the President of China at the rate of 2,000 per hour without stopping day or night, the President would go without sleep for one whole month. There are probably not less than one-half million of people in China today who are blind in both eyes; probably five million more who are blind in one eye, and at least 15 million who are nearly blind, many of whom will be totally blind within a few years...
Dime novels were inaugurated by Manhattan Publishers Erastus & Irwin Beadle who sold the first five million between 1860-64. Who dared say that lordly persons were above them? There was Senator Zachariah Chandler of Michigan who emphatically admitted that Beadle's Oonomoo the Huron fascinated him. The man who disliked it, opined the Senator, was unfit to live. In the Civil War the same novels did much to incite soldiers on both sides to deeds of astonishing gallantry. There were, indeed, four phases of the dime novel and its follower, the Nickel Library: 1) innocent stories of the American...
Colonial--"Fifty Million Frenchmen" with Genevieve Tobin and William Gaxton. Slightly scrambled but diverting musical tour of Paris...
...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...
...Three million dollars will be spent the erection of the new Law School building on Davenport Avenue. According to the description of the structures file with the city building inspector, the southerly side of the group will be used for school purposes, while the Northeast side of the section will be used for dormitories. There are to be a total of 26 rooms in the dormitories...