Word: mass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taken aback, Orator Mussolini cleared his throat, changed the subject and went on, but the heart had gone out of the act. The speech over, the Blackshirts, innocent of their error and still warm with the thought of comforts to come, hurried out and treated the town to a mass souse such as Rome has not seen since the days of Caligula...
...behalf of radio education, The Rockefeller Foundation in September 1937 set up the Princeton Radio Research Project, gave it $67,000 to cover an anticipated two years' work. To its basic problem the project has not yet found all the answers. But it has turned up a mass of "byproduct" information about listener habits, types, preferences. So interesting were some of these by-product findings that The Journal of Applied Psychology delayed publication of its February issue until last month, built an all-radio issue around them...
...Reported well under way was the Princeton Radio Research Project's special Study of Mass Hysteria, investigating last fall's Orson Welles's invasion-from-Mars broadcast which deceived hosts of U. S. gullibles, including a dauntless pair of Princeton scientists who set right out to see what they could...
...outstanding exception is furnished by the pioneering work of the Psychology A staff. From masses of charts, graphs, and experiments of all sorts, they have devised a sliding scale for marking papers that is a triumph of refined and scientific scholarship. Marks, numerical or letter, mean comparatively little; the student's rank as a member of the course is all that matters. A distribution curve based on long experience is worked out before the course starts, and by his rank each student is fitted into his rightful place on that curve. Hence the continuity of the course average is kept...