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Before the war began at the end of February, more than a hundred ships crossed the strait most days.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
A projection by the city administrative officer estimates the city’s budget deficit to be “several hundred million.”
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
Most travel only a few hundred meters per day, which limits how much of the landscape they can study and makes it harder to gather a wide range of geological data.
From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026
How easy it would be, back in Holland, to get another—a hundred others.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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