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Word: mass (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steam engine, a joyfully inefficient and individualistic machine, had become the essence of what made the railroads pleasantly different from more modern forms of transportation. But since the war distressed fans have watched the roads transformed into just another mass-produced product of General Motors. Almost everywhere the nasal blat of diesel air horns has replaced the musical tones of multiple-chime steam whistles...

Author: By Robert M. Pringle, | Title: Chronicle of Locomotives Reflects A Vanishing Era | 11/2/1957 | See Source »

...stop worrying. The Russian government may have sent up a Sputnik, but it has also entangled itself in a mass of red tape perhaps even more complex than ours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Russian Red Tape Causes CRIME Phone Calls to Take Circular Orbit | 10/30/1957 | See Source »

Cronin's and all other business establishments now located in the block bounded by Mass. Ave., and Dunster, Holyoke, and Mt. Auburn Streets will be able to rent store space in the new combined Health Center and Administration building to be constructed on that site. Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the School of Design and architect for the building, disclosed this last night...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Health Center Will Include Store Space | 10/29/1957 | See Source »

...stores will be built out at right angles from the H-shaped structure, and will face Mass. Ave., Holyoke St., and Mt. Auburn St. It is possible that the Cambridge Trust Company may occupy part or all of the new store space to face Mass...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Health Center Will Include Store Space | 10/29/1957 | See Source »

...would not lead to the disappearance of the commercialism which Madison Avenue has come to symbolize. There have even been recent indications that the Avenue itself is restive about the present situation. The workers in mass media labor to produce what the Germans call kitsch, vulgarization of the better elements in a native culture...

Author: By Charles I. Kingson, | Title: Idiot Box | 10/29/1957 | See Source »

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