Word: massed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often profitable. Robert Elliott executes for the state prisons of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey. He gets $150 per corpse. One day last week he earned $900. Early in the morning, while a crowd cheered, tooted auto horns and exploded flashlights, he executed three men at Charlestown, Mass., then took a train for Sing Sing. It was late when he arrived. The condemned men lay awake in their uncurtained cells in the harshly lighted, white-painted death-house. A Negro was singing a song. That afternoon the black man had tried to commit suicide with a rope made...
Married. Ruth Whiting, only daughter of William F. ("When you think of writing") Whiting, President, Whiting Paper Co.; to Neil Chapin; in Holyoke, Mass...
Died. Capt. Martin E. Trench, U. S. N., 57, Governor of the Virgin Islands; on a holiday visit in Worcester, Mass., suddenly, of bronchopneumonia...
Southboro, Mass., January 14--The St. Mark's-Harvard '30 hockey match, which was to have opened the school's hockey campaign tomorrow, seems likely to be postponed for want...
...further; back to Miocene days when lemmings periodically migrated from the Scandinavian peninsula to another continent, perhaps lost Atlantis, by land routes which no longer exist. The lemmings have not yet learned that their oldtime highways are gone. At uncertain intervals (sometimes after five years, sometimes after 20) they mass on an edge of the Scandinavian plateau† and start a beeline migration. They move by the million, having families more plentifully than ever on the march; destroying crops and herbage; preyed on by throngs of bigger beasts. They never hesitate,moving on (like Theodore Roosevelt and his children**) over...