Word: masse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...source for lynching information was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which set down as a "lynching" the shooting of Ella Wiggins, white, in Gastonia last September. She was killed when a mob sprayed bullets in a truckful of men and women going to a Communist mass meeting (TIME, Sept...
...system is a complex one. The actual nominating is done by members of a student council committee from the floor in mass meeting of the class. A preliminary vote is taken upon the nominees; the three winners are then submitted to an elimination count which decides the election. The advantage of the method is to reach all sections of the class. The situation in which many a voter finds all the nominees are strangers to him cannot arise...
...clear that the system is not applicable to Harvard. The mere mention of a class mass meeting is enough to damn it. Nevertheless there is a need for a method by which the name of the nominee will have some significance in the mind of the voter. A brief mention of the position and activities of the candidate, printed on the ballot, would serve in some measure to acquaint the voter with the aspirant for office...
...rapidity with which it has been lowered with the passing of each decade. Twenty years before the turn of the century, the Harvard athlete in comparison with the average non-college man was a thirteen to ten bet to succumb to the grim reaper before the great mass of people not engaged in strenuous competition; it is now a four to five proposition that he will not attain greater longevity than the other...
...season, nesting in the Arctic, wintering in the Antarctic. Chief Redington declared that the number of migratory game birds is fast dwindling in the U. S. Every citizen has a right to kill them in season (some states allow 25 such killings a day). Modern hunters use modern mass-destruction methods, such as automatic and repeating shotguns, live decoys, baited ducking grounds. Ducks die by the million from improper refuges like the Bear River marshes near Great Salt Lake, Utah, where alkali permeates the duck ponds. Chief Redington recommends more sanctuaries. Last April Congress voted...