Word: masse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bridging of the chasm between secondary school and college is a riddle that has perplexed the educational engineers of America. In conventions, in college conferences, in most of the magazines of the popular intellectualism, the question has been put again and again. The mass of data is huge and mounting, but the man who can make a great highway, smooth-paved and uninterrupted, of what is now two roads connected by a bridge of San Luis, Rey, has not yet appeared...
...peasants are not hoarding as obstinately as in the years of extreme crisis, 1920 and 1921. The additional fact that grain collections have considerably speeded up since the first of this year prompted Pravda to detect "a marked change for the better in the relations of the important mass of the peasantry toward Soviet methods...
...Cambridge, Mass., a mongrel dog walked into the hallway of a lodging-house and gave a snarl. So ferocious was this snarl that Mrs. Dominic Spirito & two offspring, Mrs. Hugo Hoffman & two offspring, scurried quickly to their rooms, from the half opened doors of which they peeped down at the mongrel with frightened faces. Eleven-year-old Benjamin Guieto, observing the terrified women and children, jumped out the window and got a policeman. The policeman came up behind the prowling mongrel and shot him dead...
Following an eight weeks competition, Barrett Hoyt '30 of Brookline has been appointed second assistant hockey manager. Hoyt, who prepared at Browne and Nichols, will be manager of the University team in his Senior year. L. L. Wadsworth Jr. '30 of Winchester, Mass., was given the position of manager of the second team. He will fill the post of associate manager in his Senior year. Wadsworth prepared at Exeter...
Charlie Molina, 17, of Boston, Mass., needed a haircut so visibly that his school principal gave him 35? to get one. He increased his capital to $1 by playing a slot machine, spent the $1 at the cinema, had his father cut his hair. The school principal had the owner of the slot machine arrested and convicted for running a lottery...