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Word: massed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning last week at New Rochelle, N.Y., the students of the college of that name were entering chapel for seven o'clock mass when flames (caused by a short circuit) burst from the ceiling; the students fled unhurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cleveland Clinic | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Fire ladders were extended to the roof. The firemen looked down through the broken skylight on a stairway filled with a mass of struggling bodies, arms and legs twisted and intertangled. Screams and shrieks of agony arose. The rescuers broke their way in from the roof. More than 16 bodies blocked the stairway. Only one, that of a doctor, seemed alive. He was removed first but died in a hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cleveland Clinic | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...Organization of open air mass meetings to preach the virtues of Prohibition. Government cinemas on the Evils of Drink to be shown in all cinema theatres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Peace | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...Duluth, Elizabeth, Lowell, Lynn, New Haven, Springfield, Mass., Tacoma, Yonkers, Youngstown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Manhattan Birth Control | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

John Coolidge once bought a saxophone for $230, tooted it in the White House. His father objected. Son John sold the horn. Last week one Arnold Zahn of Brookline, Mass., obtained what was represented as being the Coolidge saxophone, at a Boston pawnshop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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