Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leader in forming the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, was president in 1914 and 1915. He was editor and manager of the Associated Press in Boston, and later superintendent of the A.P. in New England. He was editor and publisher of the Boston Traveler, president and publisher of the Worcester (Mass.) Post and the Manchester (N.H.) Mirror, president of the Clark Press, and publisher of the New York Evening Post. He was also second vice president of the Associated Press...
Needham Heights, Mass...
...Tibet's fate were not reminder enough of the penalties of flouting authority in the Communist world, word leaked from Budapest of a new mass trial of workers from Csepel Island, the industrial area that held out longest against the Russians in the 1956 revolt. The score of terror: ten death sentences, 25 prison terms ranging from two years to life...
...have for flames and firefighting occurred during the controversial term of President Increase Mather in the late 1600's. An avid theologian, he burned a book on New England witchcraft at a public ceremony in the College Yard. Thus, it was a College President who started the custom of mass conflagrations in the Yard...
...Aaron's sure hand, however, that provides the necessary finesse. He handles the group scenes especially effectively; indeed, the best moment of the evening comes in scene four, when the priest is saying a makeshift Mass in the hut of the woman whose daughter he fathered. As the townspeople, genuflecting on the dirt floor, devoutly listen to the Latin words, Stephen Randall '60 (who does an excellent job in several bit parts) bursts into the hut with a warning that the police are three minutes away. The shock of this pronouncement frightens even the audience...