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Word: massed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Coolidge, home from Amherst for Easter, entertained his college-mates Jack Hills and Edward Young in a manner they will not soon forget, as White House guests. . . . Mrs. Coolidge left Washington to go to Northampton, Mass., where her 78-year-old mother, Mrs. Lemira Goodhue long ill, was reported to be "in a critical condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Apr. 2, 1928 | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

When her bathroom scales read exactly 103 pounds, Elizabeth B. Patterson, Smith College student at Northampton, Mass., decided the cheapest way to get home to Santa Barbara, Calif., was to ship herself by air mail. Officials paid tribute to her wit, ingenuity, nerve, but turned down her offer of $300 and reminded her the charge per passenger for such a trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Fliers, Flights | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Elected. Rev. Dr. Robert Russell Wicks, pastor of the Second Congregational Church of Holyoke, Mass.; sent to be Dean of Religion at Princeton University, a newly created office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 2, 1928 | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...Perhaps I Am" is not even as good as "Twice Thirty", and one regrets to see the man who could write such biographies as "The Man From Maine" and "The Americanization of Edward Bok" descending to the trivialities of Hmericks, often stale jokes, and even at best, a disjointed mass of, for the most part, pointless anecdote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKENDS | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Killers. This melodrama has a message. Act I (common-place): murder is committed in the back room of a speakeasy. Act II (excellent): a jury blunders through the process of finding the wrong person guilty. Act III (bewildering): prisoners jabber in jail, attempt a mass escape with much pistol spitting. Act IV (stupid): how to get an electric chair ready and a last-minute confession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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