Word: mask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engraving of the great dramatist, as do all of the first four Folios. This engraving has always been an object of ridicule by those who hold to the theory that Bacon wrote the works accredited to Shakespeare. These Baconians claim that the picture is nothing more than a mask, a back, and two left arms. Ben Jonson, however, according to all true Shakespearians, refutes this definitely in his verse which accompanies in his verse which accompanies the engraving. Jonson says...
Invented over 50 years ago by undergraduate Frederick W. Thayer '78, the original baseball catcher's mask is now among a group of nineteenth century relics on exhibit in Widener Library...
...turn away from their churches and to the Party to find "positive Christianity." In thus bamboozling Germans, according to the Evangelical Manifesto, Nazi spellbinders use the terms positive and negative Christianity "in the manner in which the truth is withheld from a person who is ill"-i. e., to mask the Government's real efforts "to deChristianize the German people." National Priest. After quoting Nazi Party leaders at length, the Manifesto concludes: "When, within the compass of the Nazi view of life, an anti-Semitism is forced on the Christian that binds him to hatred...
...addition to the $940,000,000 that Britain has already voted this year for army, navy and air force appropriations, the Home Office came forward last week with demands for $4,435,000 more "for the production of respirators." The goal, announced the Home Office, is a free gas mask for every man, woman and child in Britain. Some forty million of them will be required, and the final cost will be a great deal more than $4,435,000. Of the gas mask appropriation, $125,000 will go to purchase two factories near Manchester; $25,000 more...
...equal to one ton of dynamite. Last week Mr. Brown made a preliminary test of his equipment. He put on woolen basketball socks, sneakers, short hockey pants. He ate a huge breakfast of hot cakes and bacon. Then he got into a rubberized suit, hung a gas mask on his chest, a radio transmitter on his back. His crew lowered him and boat through a manhole into a sewer main, paid out 500-ft. of flexible steel cable attached to the stern of the punt. Thus insured against immediate catastrophe, Mr. Brown sculled into the hot and humid black stink...