Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HOBSON JR. Franklin, Mass...
Last week, addressing the Tenth Plenum of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers (Communist) Party in Warsaw, Gomulka spoke in the tones of a man sorely beset. The Polish party, he admitted, "has partly dissolved itself into a nonparty mass," is riddled with disorientation and confusion." Said he, "It is high time to put an end to this." The first step: purge of half the party's 1,300,000 members, which would leave Poland's core of Communists the smallest proportionately in Eastern Europe...
...orbit is now fairly well known, both to Russian and non-Russian scientists. According to the Smithsonian's Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, Mass., the satellite follows a slightly elliptical track that carries it up 480 miles above the earth. Then it swoops down to about 140 miles, a decline of three miles since launching. Air resistance is slowly reducing Sputnik's energy and making it follow a lower and therefore faster orbit. When it was first tracked, it completed its circuit of the earth in 96.20 minutes. After 326 trips (nearly 9,000,000 miles), it now does...
...course the Roman Catholic religion still exists, but there has been very little further development of dogma within it since the Reformation . . . Most of its believers go to Confession as a way of easing their consciences without seriously changing their lives, and to Mass out of fear...
...endure the penalties of lasting into a time when new forms of journalism and communication offer new competition to the printed word as well as many other ways for writers and thinkers to express themselves. But the privately owned monthly (major shareholder: Mrs. Marion D. Strachan of Groton, Mass.) has prospered, increased advertising revenue 100% and doubled circulation (to 241,520) under Weeks and his editorial staff of 8. And its 268-page, 100th anniversary edition, typographically redesigned and filled with original contributions by some of the world's best-known writers (for one example, see box), is proof...