Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Crimson: What are the differences between a Head race and the sprints? Liz O'Leary: Oh, about 5,000 competitors! No, really, the Head races are three miles in distance, and the spring races are two thousand meters, so depending on how fast your boat is, it's anywhere from a 15 to 17 minute race in the fall as opposed to a seven minute race in the spring. It's also a very different approach--in each event there are 30 or 40 boats, and so you race against the clock, as opposed to being lined up across...
...more serious things but the elevation of a paltry thing to a thing of significance in a world that often seems short of them. The poster, the fear-masking jeers of the "Love Story" audience, the gas station name patches on Park Avenue kids, all these and a thousand other acts of irony are not a craven turning away from the graveness of life, but a poignant attempt to raise something up out of the ruins of broken ideals without the recourse of myth. Futile, maybe--since irony is never truly constructive-- but in its way, honest. Irony...
...Sylvie and Bruno, one of the lesser-known works by the author of Alice in Wonderland, Bruno tells Sylvie that there are 'around one thousand and two pigs" lying in the field. Sylvie responds that if he is not sure of the total number he should say "around one thousand" and ignore the extra two, to which Bruno replies very gravely, that, on the contrary, it is of the two pigs that he is sure because they are right in front of him, while of the other thousand he has no certainty...
...author, an Oxford mathematician called Charles Dodgson who wrote for children under the pen name Lewis Carroll, knew well that one thousand and two is just as arbitrary a number as one thousand. It is only our use of the decimal system that makes us prefer one number to the other. It is this same passion for multiples of ten that will lead to so few people going to bed early on December 31, despite the purely conventional nature of the calendar and the fact that, as we have been told ad nauseam, there was no year zero and therefore...
...CABBAGE CURE If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times: Eat your fruits and vegetables! Now there's a new reason to do so. Five servings a day may reduce the odds of ischemic stroke by 25%, and 10 servings--swallow hard--by 31%. Fruits and veggies seem to help prevent the formation of dangerous blood clots associated with strokes. The best of the bunch: cruciferous vegetables like broccoli and cabbage, as well as citrus fruits...