Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harriers' second meet on their new course at Franklin Park, the U. of Mass. Redmen should prove little more than a mid-week tune-up for a tougher Ivy League contest with Dartmouth this Friday...
...Yardling harriers will also be seeking their fifth win of the season today in a similar dual meet with the U. of Mass. freshmen. Since both the number two and three men, Bob Knapp and Tony Field, are not expected to run due to injuries, McCurdy relies for a win on the Yardlings' "big improvement in depth, relatively much better than the varsity team...
Rembrandt's "St. Bartholomew" was bought from the University last week by the Worcester Art Museum of Worcester, Mass. The sale, however, was made with the consent of the donors, it was learned yesterday...
...areas hard hit by unemployment, repossessions (especially of autos) and delinquencies on installment payments naturally rose. But even they were not alarming. In Detroit, businessmen reported a "definite upsurge" in repossessions and mortgage foreclosures. In Worcester, Mass., where non-farm unemployment reached 10%, loan companies reported repossessions up from a normal .5% to nearly 2%. In Gary, Ind., dependent on steel, auto repossessions rose from five...
Writers about the gold rush, one of history's maddest mass movements, have been almost as numerous as prospectors in the Klondike. But perhaps no one has told the story with the same fullness and readable authority as Canadian Journalist Pierre Berton in The Klondike Fever. Author Berton's credentials are convincing. His father staked a claim on Quigley Gulch in 1898, and while it produced only gravel, he stayed on and lived in fabled Dawson City for 40 years. Author Berton himself lived there until he was twelve, admits that it still "haunts my dreams...