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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

Peck decided to focus on designing and making handcrafted furniture that could last another hundred years.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 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

By 4:30 a.m. we had to be standing outside in the black predawn chill, standing at parade attention in blocks of one hundred women, ten wide, ten deep.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom