Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Briggs, assistant librarian of the Widener Library and now in France, is, as representative of the American Library Association, in charge of the problem of distributing books to the military bases of the Expeditionary Forces. Twenty thousand books of fiction and general interest have recently been purchased in England by the American Y. M. C. A., and are now being sent to the soldiers at the military camps...
...economize coal and its derivatives. This is the only course left. We charge every student to feel this responsibility. Electricity is the product most easily economized, and we can do a small though valuable bit of conserving. Think twice before flooding your suite with unnecessary light. Where two thousand are concerned the saving of a few hours per day by each is not insignificant...
...thousand-yard run: F. L. A. Cady '21, A. E. Chambers '21, C. H. Corning '20, D. J. Duggan '20, W. H. W. H. Goodwin '20, N. R. Knox '21, B. Lewis '20, J. P. McAdams '21, J. E. Nally '21, D. H. Warrall...
...labor of love; to disparage a labor of love is an ungracious act. Yet it is impossible to commend unreservedly "The Poets of the Future: a College Anthology for 1916-17"--the collection of 165 poems that Mr. Henry T. Schnittkind presents after culling over the "several thousand" that were submitted to him by the poets of "several hundred colleges"! One can have nothing but admiration for the patience and industry of an editor who has performed so stupefying a task; also, one can only marvel at the enthusiasm that has survived the pains and that has expressed itself...
...lived to be a thousand...