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When it opened in 1914, McCullough writes, the waterway was “the culmination of a heroic dream of four hundred years and of more than twenty years of phenomenal effort and sacrifice.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Forty years after they began the task – and nearly four hundred years after receiving their first commission – sages in Paris have finally produced a new edition of the definitive French dictionary.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2024
Analysing DNA from both breast tissue and white blood from over four hundred breast cancer patients, they made several important discoveries providing new light on the subject.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 7, 2023
After eleven months of getting exactly zero dollars and over four hundred "no’s" from potential investors, I was completely beaten down and broken.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2023
The final fair bill signed in April by President Benjamin Harrison established a Dedication Day for October 12, 1892, to honor the moment four hundred years earlier when Columbus had first sighted the New World.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
