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“There’s another one over there that’s even more crowded than this,” a campus caretaker said, pointing to an adjacent lot a few hundred yards away.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

Six hundred or so employees own the firm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

Several hundred people gathered to protest outside the party conference.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

Two hundred fifty years ago, the “truths” Thomas Jefferson laid out in the Declaration of Independence were not yet “self-evident,” as Elaine Pagels pointed out in a recent essay.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

He could shuck very nearly a hundred bushel a day.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck