Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...road our cars took to get there was lined with a huge crowd who cheered ceaselessly for the King and Queen, and, as we reached the vast gardens of the University, a thousand persons, most of whom were students almost deafened the royal guests by the noise of their reception...
...last, after we had had a cup of tea with President Lowell, we rejoined our train again, followed by the cheers of fifty thousand motorists, who, in order to celebrate the victor of the Yser, not only shouted wildly but tooted their horns as well. What a glorious day this...
...Because of the high cost of living, there is a disastrous lack of teachers for the schools of the country. Six hundred thousand teachers are needed in the United States to teach the 20,000,000 pupils in our schools, and 100,000 new positions are open every year; yet the teacher-training institutions of the country do not turn out more than 25,000 graduates to fill them...
...second floor is an excellent library of several thousand volumes. The library is in exceptionally good condition this year; 200 new books have recently been added and 150 war books by Harvard authors are accessible...
...eight-line dispatch from New York brings the news that twenty vessels of the Navy's Suicide Squadron" have reached that port. For over two years they have spent their days and nights in foreign waters sweeping the seas of more than fifty thousand mines that the commerce of the world might pass in safety. This was the work that called for perhaps the sheerest courage of the war. Ploughing undramatically through the dangerous, fog-swept North Sea, constantly in danger of being wiped out by the deadly, unseen mine or the cowardly submarine, they made it possible...