Word: massed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...room in an upholsterer's house was draped in black, lit with candles. A hundred years ago it was Schubert's death chamber. Last week it was empty save for an altar and a marble bust. Yet there, for tribute, gathered highest dignitaries to hear the solemn mass pronounced by His Eminence Gustave Frederic Cardinal Piffl, Archbishop of Vienna. Outside the little house the street was roped off, guarded by police. Only honored guests were admitted-and 500 school children who sang Schubert songs...
...relation borne by the religious and philanthropic work of the Phillips Brooks House to a liberal education of the individual and the mass will be treated by the speaker at 11 o'clock on Sunday morning. Mr. Moors has been asked to handle this phase of the topic. If he is unable to attend the conference, another man active in the field of education will deliver this address...
...persuasion of industrialists. Those described in Maurice Holland's Industrial Explorers epitomize the profession. For example: Willis Rodney Whitney, 60, directs nearly 400 chemists, physicists, engineers, research assistants, machinists, glass blowers, electricians, stenographers, clerks, for General Electric. They work in laboratories at Schenectady, N. Y., Lynn and Pittsfield, Mass., Cleveland. On his staff are Dr. William David Coolidge (cathode rays) and Dr. Irving Langmuir (incandescent gases). Professor Whitney (he is nonresident professor of chemical research for Massachusetts Institute of Technology, school of most industrial research leaders), has a genius for inspiring co-workers with eagerness for their jobs...
...same moment it went back several years in movie methods. The sheer mass of ancient spectacle, so popular in the faraway days of Intolerance...
...view of the wit and alert psychological analysis dissipated by Boston newspaper columnists on the falling off in attendance at football mass meetings at Harvard, this kindred slump among the Elis must be regarded as a direct refutation of any explaining cause except that of a saner adjustment of athletic interest in both colleges. It is regrettable that Yale has encroached upon the portion of distaste for crowd hysteria lately and solely possessed by the ten thousand men. But it has done so and what barbs are thrown in the future must be received upon the joined bucklers...