Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have a thousand people to please before one of them will tell you so I write this letter to give expression of what's in the minds of the nine hundred and ninety-nine who will not write...
...College a clock for the tower in Memorial Hall. The striking of this clock was a great annoyance to Professor Shaler, who declared that he heard it every hour in the night. 'I told the Corporation,' he said, 'that it would have to choose between me and three thousand pounds of brass...
...traditional ten thousand men of Harvard have become 55,151 according to the 1929 edition of the Alumni Directory which is being printed this week and will go on sale next week...
...soothing to embrace of Morpheus, merits a drastic cure. For the benefit of New York's commission, a variation of the Chinese torture is suggested, whereby all these destroyers of peace be sentenced to padded cells, where they may slowly starve to death to the tune of a thousand mixed auto horns...
...Armistice ended the pressing need for officers, and West Point reverted to normalcy. About three thousand graduates served in this war demonstrating marked ability in the performance of duty. Pershing and March were of the Class of 1886, and 1888; of the forty-one division, corps, and army commanders in the A. E. F., thirty seven were West Pointers...