Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Deutschland to collect and disseminate important technical information which otherwise would not be published. Syracuse University got $30,000 to develop aerial photographic surveying and mapping. For a flying laboratory in which to try out instruments which would permit flyers to go through fog and darkness went several thousand dollars; for prizes in a safe airplane contest, $150,000. To the Government of Chile also went $500,000, to develop aviation, a gift from Daniel Guggenheim apart from his gifts to the Fund...
...Edinburgh Review (that "modern readers are not willing to wait a quarter of a year" [TIME, Oct. 28]) and in the Review's old colors of blue and buff, that new Century rose from the ashes. Said Editor Howland: "Within these blue and buff covers there are eighty thousand words. They were chosen by eighteen skilled workmen, who joined them together that you might have this record of their ideas and ideals, their doubts and convictions, their theories and experiences. They have unrolled a prospect wide and various across these one hundred and sixty pages, and they have adorned...
...thousand people are expected to see the first-year tussle today, a strong contrast to the 1500 who shivered in the rain last year while Harvard scored a 19 to 0 victory...
...Harvard man gets his learning from the careful study of text-books; the Michigan student more often obtains his knowledge from the study of the co-eds in the classroom. And they are worth looking at. Be it known that the presence of several thousand female students at the University of Michigan is the greatest factor differentiating it from Harvard. For there is endless social life within the college. Whereas Harvard men get much of their excitement from rushing in to Boston, and attending the "deb" dances, the Wolverine undergraduate stays at home...
...first western invasion since the late fall of 1920, Harvard will be exhibiting its football wares to a curious and expectant crowd. It is more than football, however, that will draw eighty thousand spectators into the Michigan stadium. To the alumni of the middle-west the team represents a vital connecting link between themselves and Harvard, and the Michigan adherents see the players in the light of emissaries from an ancient and famous college of the East to one of the out-standing universities of the middle-west...