Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most American universities where there are a multitude of speech courses and an undergraduate major in the subject. But the study of speech could be a beneficial part of many undergraduates' curricula. Courses should be offered in the techniques of group problem-solving, dramatic interpretation, the analysis of argument, mass persuasion, and rhetorical theory...
...properly an "accelerator" in the normal sense of the word. An experiment may start with electrons at .99 the speed of light and increase the velocity to .99999 the speed of light--not too great a change in percentage terms. What does increase dramatically is the energy (and the mass). At the beginning of an experiment, a beam of electrons may have a rest energy of 1/2 million electron volts; it is directed through a linear "pre-accelerator" (or "injector") where the energy is increased to 20 million electron volts. Then, in the accelerator proper, the energy may be raised...
Meanwhile, the mass undergoes a similar increase: the rest mass of a proton is 1800 times as great as that of an electron; by the end of an accelerator experiment, says Livingston, an electron may become "over 6 times as heavy as a proton." In other words, the mass of the electron is increased 12,000 fold; thus, Livingston notes, many physicists half-seriously call the machine a "ponderator...
...that Catholicism in the U.S. is "banal and too pedestrian. When a Latin American listens to a sermon, he wants to enjoy it with deep feeling ... I have seen Latin American boys who entered into almost ecstatic converse with Christ after Communion, though they skipped all parts of the Mass other than the Communion...
...favor Algerian independence, but the question deserves more than a one-minute debate before being overwhelmingly backed. Resolutions were passed on mass emotion, passed as quickly as possible to get them out of the way, passed with our two representatives (in over 1000) not having an opportunity to speak. Everyone, official delegate or not, had a voice; it was impossible to be heard over the hundreds of "extras...